Editing Quotes · Page 6

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

“Editing is a conversation, not a monologue”

— Susan Bell

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

— Billy Lawrence

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.

— Desiree Akhavan

I used to edit my pictures and make my lips look even bigger in the editing apps.

— Megan McKenna

You can spend hours editing an email but send it as if you wrote it in a minute.

— Sally Rooney

Editing is the most companionable form of education.

— Ed Weeks

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

— Anna Sui

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is…

— Ira Glass

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

— Catherine Hardwicke

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers…

— Sue Naegle

We think that we've gotten better over time editing ourselves, and when something doesn't feel right you kind of go, 'Let's put…

— Russell Mael

I always believe that editing is the kind of thing where you want to cut into a scene a little bit after…

— David Nutter

“You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.”

— Anthony Horowitz

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I can lock myself for months in the editing suite with no noise or distractions. It's fascinating to see the film taking…

— Rajkumar Hirani

If I could get myself in an editing room, that'd be trouble. I mean, that's how it works, you know? You leave…

— Paul Dano

I remember walking into the editing room when I was a junior in college, and I watched the guy make cuts, and…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating…

— Neil Gaiman

I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I…

— Hugh Grant

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece…

— John Crowley

The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I…

— Walter Mosley

Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest…

— Norma Kamali

I prefer a change of surroundings anyway, and I like to be around some energy and white noise, so I usually go…

— Douglas Brunt

Directing's the best part. Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. And secondly, it means…

— J. J. Abrams

Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was,…

— Lynn Coady

“Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't,…

— Mort W. Lumsden

There were definitely scenes I struggled with more than others: the car accident and the thunderstorm are two that come to mind.…

— Mary J. Miller

“[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don’t exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature…

— Dalma Heyn

Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation,…

— Joey Sturgis

“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to…

— Charles Finch

All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you…

— Alexander Payne

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

— Brent Sexton

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

— Hippocrates

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

— Sarah Vowell

I'm deleting all my editing apps I used to slim myself down and airbrush pics.

— Emily Atack

“A real editor isn't just someone you work with; he's your guide.”

— Ariel Levy

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

— Adam Yauch

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

— Richard Chenevix Trench