"Alfonso had an idea that he wanted the shots to be incredibly long, and I said, ‘How long?’ And he said he wanted the first shot to be really long. And I said, ‘You mean, 40 seconds?’ ‘No, 17 minutes.’ So it ends up the film only has 156 shots in the entire two-hour movie, many of them six, eight, 10 minutes long."

— Warner Bros.’ Chris deFaria drops some deets about Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. (via lowindustrial)

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