I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing…

I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get…

— Paul Greengrass

I think I was never home when I was directing, because you're either prepping, shooting, or editing, and then acting at the same time.…

— Miguel Ferrer

Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set…

— Kevin Smith

As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now I've gotten…

— Storm Saulter

I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing…

— Etel Adnan

A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan…

— John Wesley Harding

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and…

— Steve Earle

“Somewhere in my past, I learned that if you separate yourself, you don't get hurt. Pain can be avoided.”

— Adriana Trigiani

We learned to separate, and accept the fact that my mother is gone, yet there she is on TV, on a billboard, sooner or…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand…

— Orson Scott Card

Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“By the end of that first day, what I'd made was a big mess. But if chaos is a necessary step in the organization…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“My rule is never save bits. They get in the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big…

— Gene Wolfe

“Dream big! But not so big that it becomes a mess, and you may never reach reality.”

— Hasil Paudyal

Happy Boss's Day to someone who walked into almost as big of a mess as Obama did.

— Anonymous