Editing Quotes · Page 4

“When reading I pretend I’m an editor, though when writing I realize I’m not.”

— Fierce Dolan

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

— Drew Barrymore

CRISPR editing will allow us to enhance ourselves.

— Dominic Cummings

“If it's not right, keep editing until it is. ~ Life”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Coffee is for writing and tea is for editing. I don't know why but it just is.”

— C.E. Wilson

“Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.”

— Sloan Wilson

Stop editing your pictures so much. What if you go missing?

— Celeste Hartman

“changes in the story were the result of normal editing.”

— Bryan Burrough

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level…

— Lydia Davis

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You…

— Spike Lee

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Self-editing a novel is like trying to put pants on a cat: yes, it's painful and time consuming, but in the end,…

— Robert Jack

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to…

— Robert Gottlieb

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in…

— Joe Dante

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even…

— Bill Walsh

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript…

— Judith Thurman

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Robert Bresson

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

— Paul Greengrass

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

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

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

My dad bought me a camera, and I started taking it everywhere with me. I realised how much I was enjoying the…

— Brooklyn Beckham

Sometimes the most difficult thing you can do as an editor is not make a single note - the idea that everything…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire…

— Porochista Khakpour

“It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or…

— Jack McClelland

Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into…

— Guy Maddin

The thing about how that process works is that it's more about the editing and time for judging the ideas. Most pieces…

— Paul Madonna

There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be…

— Ethan Hawke

I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because…

— Paul Schneider

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is…

— Anonymous

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”

— C.S. Lewis

I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.

— Julie Delpy

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

— Joan Silber

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

— Russell Lynes

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

— Eddie Kaye Thomas

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

— Alicia Vikander

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

— Joseph Kanon