Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
“Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long.… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Sometimes the entire tone of an episode can be reshaped in directing or editing or acting. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The truth is a lot of people doing professional video editing and things like that are using these displays that are mounted… — Marques Brownlee Copy Share Image
When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
Songs are like my children, from the concept phase, to writing, to recording, then editing and all of the work that went… — Granger Smith Copy Share Image
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication… Good editors are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because,… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity… — Ruth E. Carter Copy Share Image
I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
“No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.” — Merilyn Simonds Copy Share Image
I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel… — Nina Menkes Copy Share Image
Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace Copy Share Image
Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological… — Vsevolod Pudovkin Copy Share Image
The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked… — ZZ Packer Copy Share Image
When I was 11, at prep school, I was starring in the school play, editing the school magazine and standing as Conservative… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
“As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
