I think overdesigning comes from a lack of editing. The…

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Rian Johnson

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…

— Albert Brooks

“It’s easy to see what to do once it’s already been done. The difficult time is before it’s to be done, and while you’re…

— Jarod Kintz

I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,…

— Sheila Heti

And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing…

— Charlie Kaufman

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,…

— Antony Hegarty

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid…

— Juliana Hatfield

I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to…

— Hugh Grant

When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never…

— Sajid Nadiadwala

A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.…

— Matt Walsh

Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while…

— Rajkumar Hirani

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing…

— Robert B. Weide

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of…

— Charlie Kaufman