I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.
I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.