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Ethan Hawke

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.

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Ethan Hawke is saying that modern movies often feel unnecessarily long, adding extra time without good reason. He contrasts this with older films, where a long runtime was justified by serious, meaningful topics like the story of Gandhi.

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