"He said, 'we need to cut 40 minutes from it.'. I said, 'Harvey, you lost that battle before the film came to you. You contractually cannot cut a frame'. He said, "Yeah, still needs to be 90 minutes. I’m going to tell Mr Miyazaki tonight, he's going to agree." This was at a celebration dinner at a Cuban restaurant. As Gaiman recalls, Weinstein told Miyazaki and Suzuki the news while they were smoking outside. "Mr Miyazaki, and Mr Suzuki do not return," says Gaiman. "I ask Harvey what they had said. He replies, 'well they said no, but they’ll change their mind. Tomorrow the New York Times review is going to come out and say it’s too long. And then they will listen to me'."
