Editing Quotes · Page 7

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

— Leni Riefenstahl

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

— Zadie Smith

Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don't rule out changing…

— Maurizio Cattelan

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

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is…

— Macklemore

Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.

— Scott Gottlieb

My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on…

— Scott Glenn

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

— Abel Ferrara

Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do…

— Sufjan Stevens

Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

— Gerald Brommer

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

— Fierce Dolan

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

— Woody Allen

Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano…

— Will Smith

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and…

— Rick Moranis

I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video…

— Rich Brian

“Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on…

— CK Webb

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

— Henry R. Luce

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

— Barry Hannah

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

— David Mitchell

Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.

— Thomas Bidegain

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from…

— Brit Marling

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I…

— Frances Stark

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel…

— Nina Menkes

I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But…

— Oliver Harris

Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for…

— Dave McKean