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How to Direct a Movie, With Sam Esmail

The Big Picture

CHAPTER

It's Not Always the Runtime

"It's not the run times. It's more like silent film shown to a teenager is an interesting gambit in 2022, just as it was probably in 1972." "I think that you are right, that a great three-hour movie needs all of its time, but sometimes you have to make choices," he says. 'That doesn't ruin your affinity for succession, which most certainly probably doesn't have an endpoint' He adds: 'You always do this, and you did the same thing with your other work,. Most TV shows don't have that.'

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