Joss Whedon does everything in his power to avoid director's cuts.
The 51-year-old filmmaker recently released his latest Marvel movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, which was a huge box office success.
And director Joss doesn't like the concept of making more than one version of the same film.
"It has always been my ambition never to do a director's cut of anything, and always to make the movie with the studio that we both want to make," he explained during a Comic-Con panel, according to Collider.
Joss confessed artistic integrity isn't necessarily the inspiration behind his choice to create just one version of any given movie.
The helmer is more put off by the amount of work involved in making a director's cut.
"Ultron was very complex. There was a lot of back-and-forth. My instinct is no. Just as an artist, I'm super f***ing lazy and that sounds like it would be hard," he noted of cutting alternate versions of Age of Ultron. "I don't think there's interest in it, right now. You'll see a bunch of stuff on the DVD in extras that were meant to be there. But the narrative came together very close to the way that I hoped it would, and I don't think it needs me to constantly tweak it. I feel you put something out, and there it is."
Joss decided not to make director's cuts when he was very young.
He also finds the practice of regurgitating creative ideas in Hollywood distasteful.
"The first time I ever heard a remix, I was 13 and I was listening to the radio. I heard a song that had been re-mixed and it freaked me out so much that I turned off the radio and never listened to it since, literally. That is an actual truth. I felt like, 'Wait, that was the song. You can't do that'," Joss recalled. "Our entire culture consists of doing exactly that, but I'm not for it. If I tell a story, I want that to be the story I told."
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