Editing Quotes · Page 8

I love editing, and I don't mind when things are edited and you can see the editing.

— Sophia Takal

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

— Ernest Hemingway

I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that.

— Casey Neistat

If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that…

— Daniel Stamm

“Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.”

— Frank Black

By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film,…

— Werner Herzog

“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines…

— Chris Pavone

Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh…

— William Manchester

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about…

— Steven Pinker

“I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something…

— Michael Marshall Smith

The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they…

— Sue Tompkins

The more powerful you become, the less likely it is that people will tell you the truth. It must be why the…

— Robert Rinder

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent…

— Bob Odenkirk

“The evidence for editing and compiling is most obvious in Proverbs and Jeremiah, thus establishing the principle that the words of inspired…

— Alden Thompson

I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that…

— Frederick Wiseman

I personally think a fight scene is the most cinematic thing you can witness because all the elements of filmmaking come together,…

— Scott Adkins

I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes.…

— Werner Herzog

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then…

— Porochista Khakpour

For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes…

— Thom Powers

The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little…

— Glenn McQuaid

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

— Gregory Rabassa

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'

— Jonas Mekas

Obviously movies like this [Fast and the Furious 7] don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be…

— Bun B

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last…

— Quentin Tarantino

Editing is a meditative process. I enjoy it the most. I am not dealing with 200 people.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Editing was hard for me. It was hard to be in a room by yourself and not have that collaborative spirit. Comedies…

— Jerusha Hess

I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of…

— Jørgen Leth

I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make…

— Christopher Guest

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

“I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.”

— Jack McClelland

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

— Gerald Brommer

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock,…

— Aaron Eckhart

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing…

— Taika Waititi

When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is…

— Sheila Heti

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that…

— Bill Walsh

“Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.”

— Midnight Taylor