It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
When you're in the editing room, as a director, you get the opportunity to look at your work. As a writer, you… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about editing when I met Mr. Scorsese... Through a series of weird events, I ended up at New York… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I love to tell stories, but the making is less comfortable. I like to be private, and being in the middle of… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines… — James May Copy Share Image
When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
It was really interesting to be editing the film [Trust] in New York and directing the play in Chicago, and one definitely… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous,… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It's not always easy to have… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand… — John Searles Copy Share Image
When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
Going into editing when I got to New York was part of that. I guess I just kind of wanted to know… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
My wife convinced me to try doing the restorations digitally. I thought I could learn the photo editing software over the Thanksgiving… — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a… — Jay Cassidy Copy Share Image
You just don't know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed… — Eric T. Benoit Copy Share Image
Before I hit any country I always do my research. I look at what's on the chart there, what's worked in the… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a… — John Requa Copy Share Image
I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I try and shoot as often as I can, I cross shoot. I have at least two cameras rolling at the same… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
In early days, I showed everything I made. There was no such thing as editing a collection. In the '80s, it got… — Michael Kors Copy Share Image
![“It was really interesting to be editing the film [Trust] in New York and directing the play in Chicago, and one definitely informed the other. The play probably benefitted more because I realized what scenes could be cut, and I cut those scenes from the play.” quote by David Schwimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c90/david-schwimmer-8353_chicago_it-was-really-interesting-to-be-editing_1664516.jpg)
![“I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a release date and so you're stuck to that schedule. But sometimes you're still editing and you feel like you're not really done, but they're sort of releasing the movie anyway…” quote by Rob Zombie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01e/rob-zombie-2937_cinema_i-know-when-something-is-done-and-when-i_3215250.jpg)
