Movie Duration Quotes

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

I like films that are about two hours not more.

I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit.

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

My problem with both iterations of 'Dark Phoenix' onscreen, the original by Brett Ratner and the newer version by Simon Kinberg, is, I don't think you can do it effectively in 90 minutes.

I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant.

With fashion, you go deep into a shoot for one day, but a movie lasts so much longer. It's literally like going to summer camp.

Anytime a movie lasts, it's really a thrill. I mean, that people can still pick up on it, and still enjoy it, that makes you feel great.

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

I think movies are too long.

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.