Editing Quotes · Page 7

As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.

— Barry Levinson

“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.”

— Joan Silber

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

“Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

With digital editing, I now can make many, many versions of a scene.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking…

— Anthony Minghella

Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would…

— Stefano Gabbana

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come…

— Jay Duplass

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

— Anatole France

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

— Alexander Payne

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

— Pete Waterman

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

— Rich Brian

To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own…

— Doug Jones

In terms of my career, it began in earnest when I was living in Boston. I started doing my own films, working…

— Brad Anderson

You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh…

— Robert De Niro

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm…

— Haile Gerima

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting…

— Kevin J. Anderson

And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what...to create those things instead of me breathing over…

— Nicholas Stoller

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room -…

— Julia Stiles

I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor…

— Anonymous

With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be…

— Walker Evans

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's…

— John Szarkowski

What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a…

— John C. Wright

Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such…

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and…

— Gena Rowlands

Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

Teaching and editing have helped me enormously, and brought wonderful people into my life. When I see an author I'm editing struggling…

— Hannah Tinti

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

— Henry Watson Fowler

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

— Dennis Ritchie

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

— Woody Allen

“It is free speech, just edited into defeat.”

— Brian Spellman

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

— Ernest Hemingway

I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job.

— Chris Pavone

“Edit your author as you would be edited.”

— Barbara Sjoholm

“It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.”

— Betsy Lerner