“Everything needs to be edited…. My entire career is I cut it down to a little less than you really wanted. When was the last time you saw a movie and thought, ‘Gee, I wish it was a little longer’? Never.”
—Jerry Seinfeld
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Scott W. Smith is the author of Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles