Brady Corbet, who premieres his three-and-a-half-hour historical drama “The Brutalist” at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday, dismisses the discourse that films are too long.

"This film does everything we've been told not to do," the director said at the film's press conference. "I actually think it's kind of silly to have a conversation about running time, because that's like criticizing a book for being 700 pages instead of 100 pages."

He continued that for him it's more about "how much story there is to tell."

“Maybe the next thing I do will be 45 minutes and I should be allowed to do that. We should all be allowed to do that. The idea that we have to fit into a box is kind of ridiculous,” he said. “We have to get past that, it’s 2024. As Harmony Korine once said, cinema is stuck in the birth canal. And I agree with him, so we should help it.”