I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting…

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year…

— Michael Helm

Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to…

— Michael Korda

The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing…

— John Grant

I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.

— Kevin Macdonald

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…

— Frank Darabont

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

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