Editing Quotes

I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.

I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.

As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

Obviously movies like this [Fast and the Furious 7] don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be special effects or sound editing or something like that.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance.

If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.

It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.

The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format.

Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

Editing is the most companionable form of education.

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

Anyone who can not write should.

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

Editing was hard for me. It was hard to be in a room by yourself and not have that collaborative spirit. Comedies are really tight and timing is everything.

I think we filmed a lot of the recording and it would be nice to do something with it but you know, videos are tricky because we know how to make albums but I'm not very good at video editing .

Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.

Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.