Editing Quotes · Page 13

“No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.”

— Merilyn Simonds

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

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

— Candace Camp

“Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

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

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

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

— Janet Evanovich

Sometimes the entire tone of an episode can be reshaped in directing or editing or acting.

— Bear McCreary

It's hard for people to understand editing, I think. It's absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

That was an amazing experience [making Dream of Life]. It's hard to imagine that we were editing every day for a year.…

— Steven Sebring

I was directing as a kid in movies, and that was always my strongest interest. When I was under contract at Universal,…

— Tim Matheson

A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors…

— Robert Bresson

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Paul Greengrass

As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're…

— Richard LaGravenese

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all…

— Richard Rhodes

Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then…

— David Cross

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

— Anonymous

“[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

The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,…

— Donald Murray

Over time it just got more and more intense as far as the trust factor. For example, when we started editing the…

— Steven Sebring

When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like…

— Matt Berninger

Editing rooms are kind of, by definition, a bubble of you and the editor and what you're thinking. It's a truth-telling thing…

— Richard Linklater

In the very beginning, women were editors because they were the people in the lab rolling the film before there was editing.…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

“Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like…

— E. Nesbit

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

— Mark Twain

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

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

— Leos Carax

“Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.”

— Red Red Rover

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

— Martin Short

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

— Henry Seidel Canby

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to…

— J. C. Chandor

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished.”

— Richard Due

I don't do a lot of editing post-shoot, but I use Lightroom to play with contrast and texture and to remove dust.

— Laurent Baheux

Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.

— Thomas Bidegain

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is…

— Keith Rabois

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love…

— Will Smith

The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.

— David Hockney