Editing Quotes · Page 5

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

— Quincy Jones

I've worked on a set before, know something about cameras, and done some editing.

— Steve Carr

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

— Esther Freud

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

— James Tate

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

— Allison Joseph

I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.

— Jon Lovett

“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”

— William Collins

“A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.

— Vanessa Redgrave

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

— Horace

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started…

— Charles Bukowski

My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

— Steven Soderbergh

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity…

— Hannah Fidell

“Editing is like pruning the rose bush you thought was so perfect and beautiful until it overgrew the garden.”

— Larry Enright

On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't…

— Walter Kirn

George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves…

— Christopher Nolan

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

Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that's their album. I can't relate,…

— Kelela

I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary,…

— Haile Gerima

“Self publishing' is not as easy as it is portrayed! When you think you have finished your book, proof read, proof read…

— Phil Simpkin

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into…

— Steven Zaillian

"Kindness" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in…

— George Saunders

“How, then, to proceed? My method is: I imagine a meter mounted in my forehead, with “P” on this side (“Positive”) and…

— George Saunders

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the…

— Jason Reitman

And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else.…

— Martin Scorsese

Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages…

— Jeanette Winterson

“So, at the turn of the third millennium, you have chosen to base your principles on a collection of contradictory texts –…

— Cliff James

As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now…

— Storm Saulter

“Preoccupation with style will not produce it. No amount of editing and polishing will have any appreciable effect on the flavor of…

— Raymond Chandler

“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing…

— Jack McClelland

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

— Graydon Carter

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

— George Wald

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format.

— Dick Latvala

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

— Anonymous

“In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...”

— Susi Moore

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

— Daniel Espinosa

Being robbed is a really great way of editing your belongings.

— John Gourley

“Writing is a piece of cake. Editing is a slab of liver.”

— Evels