All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that’s 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there’s one funny joke, I’ll shoot five because I don’t know if the one I like is going to work. I’ll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn’t work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.
