Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
We may have our own ideas in the writing and editing stages, but we work out those disagreements in a constructive way. — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the… — Yvette Mimieux Copy Share Image
“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
When I made YouTube videos, I am the one who's uploading it, I'm the one who's editing it, so I'm very in… — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
I have a company where I'm trying to get projects off the ground. Me and my partner Madeleine Sackler, we just shot… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my… — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
I want to get out of the way of the actors. I want to get out of their eye lines. I want… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
“Even with my focused intention to be eloquent and reflect perfect grammar, syntax, and punctuation in my writing, I still flub up… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
During the preproduction when I'm shooting and then once we wrap we go away. And then the visual effects guys take over.… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
I mean, in the editing room, you sit there, and you're so happy about a lot of it. You've got these great… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess… — Bjork Copy Share Image
With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it… — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
One of my favorite apps is VSCO, which is for editing photos. I think they have great filters. And then I read… — Kiernan Shipka Copy Share Image
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to… — Sahara Sanders Copy Share Image
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There's a couple of enemies to improv, and one of them is editing; when you edit on TV it makes it seem… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process. — Antoniette Costa Copy Share Image
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
If you watch 'Armour of God' and 'Police Story' there's a clarity in the editing and shooting that showcases moments of the… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
