The first cut I do is usually ...
The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, 'You got to lose 40 minutes,' they are always saying, 'You've got to gain five minutes.'