Editing Quotes · Page 16

As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

— Orson Welles

The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my…

— Dominick Dunne

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock,…

— Aaron Eckhart

I got started on YouTube when I was a freshman in college. I was a broadcast journalism major, and I already had…

— Eva Gutowski

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

— Martin Scorsese

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

I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight…

— Sarah Dessen

“As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect,…

— Brad Pitt

Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature…

— Henry Adams

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life…

— Garry Marshall

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

— Alex Kapranos

[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes.…

— Werner Herzog

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

“Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important.”

— Joan Silber

Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big…

— Michael Korda

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

— Aden Young

I have a company where I'm trying to get projects off the ground. Me and my partner Madeleine Sackler, we just shot…

— Boyd Holbrook

My forte is editing and I am most experienced in that. I love the challenge of playing with material and imagination while…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV…

— John Waters

I usually just write a song and record it that day, and then that's kind of it. I'm not very good at…

— Arlo Parks

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if…

— Martin Scorsese

The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own…

— Steven Sebring

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very…

— Julie Delpy