Editing Quotes · Page 12

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

— David Antin

Everyone needs an editor.

— Timothy Foote

“Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

— Esther Freud

The editing process was a free-for-all, and since I hadn't gone to film [Dream of Life] school or anything like that, I…

— Steven Sebring

Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he…

— Steven Sebring

Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to…

— Wendy Williams

I was crying when I was editing [Beacher] but I stopped all the screenings years ago because I had a headache but…

— Garry Marshall

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come…

— Rachel Boston

I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating…

— Julia Stiles

I haven't watched 'Half Baked' in 17 years, since I was editing it. It's like looking at an old picture where you…

— Neal Brennan

I was working outside the system 'cause I couldn't get into the system. But in fact I like going off and I…

— Kelly Reichardt

When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I…

— Pedro Almodovar

“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~…

— Anonymous

I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push…

— Tom Scholz

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

— Amy Waldman

“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play…

— Elizabeth Loftus

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting…

— Kevin J. Anderson

When you're done shooting, the movie that you're going to release when you're done shooting is as bad as it will ever…

— Barry Sonnenfeld

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process…

— Alice Englert

The truth is a lot of people doing professional video editing and things like that are using these displays that are mounted…

— Marques Brownlee

I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who…

— Judd Apatow

“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip…

— Don Roff

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't…

— Spike Jonze

“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.”

— Joan Silber