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To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

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I'll take a walk up on the hill or whatever, just get out and let my mind float around the problem rather than trying to attack it directly.

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My editor and I had a theory that if the movie engages their attention, they won't mind sitting there for three hours - which I find true myself.

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I really don't think that by the time we're trying to get the audience to see Fahrenheit 451 they're going to be confused with Michael Moore's movie at all.

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He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him.

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I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

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But hey, as they say in The Godfather, this is the business we have chosen. Things turn out, sometimes they don't.

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There was obviously a concern, because nobody sets out to make a three-hour movie. Nobody particularly wants that.

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It's true, I am a control freak and I am incredibly anal-retentive, as my friend Stephen King has pointed out.

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You never know where your best intentions will get derailed, where challenges can defeat you.

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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

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You go to see a movie nowadays, and its completely pre-digested for you. You leave it in the theater the moment you walk out the door you don't take it home with you.

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My favorite was the Green Mile parody in Mad Magazine.

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I think Michael really brings the heart and the soul to this thing. The character of Coffey has to be perfection. If that role isn't perfection, if it's not played to perfection by an actor who can be vulnerable and expose his heart, I think the movie fails.

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Of course, horrorfantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature.

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It gave me a moment's pause, because I certainly wasn't looking for the next prison movie to make.

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Even in The Green Mile, towards the end, there were moments where I was moved and the water still turns on.

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And I've come to a place where I'm really very anxious to be focusing on getting my own movies made and not wrestling with other people's problems and other people's deadlines.

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I am fascinated with times past.

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I love having a context of a certain period of time in which to tell a story.

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Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

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I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

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Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

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And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

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A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

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