Editing Quotes

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.

You can't revise a blank page.

Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

Everyone needs an editor.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.

This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

The film is made in the editing room.

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

DOLCE & Gabbana is like my and Domenico Dolce's child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything!

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.

I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.