Cinema Quote by Anthony Minghella

The essence of cinema is editing.

— Francis Ford Coppola

There's a great deal of mystery in film editing, and that's because you're not supposed to see a lot of it. You're supposed to…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities…

— Ralph Fiennes

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as…

— Wes Anderson

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

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're…

— Daniel Espinosa

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room.…

— Ridley Scott

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing…

— Joe Dante

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't…

— Julia Stiles

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level…

— Walter Murch

You get so deep into something when you are filming, it's almost like writing it again when you are in the edit.

— Kate Herron

With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to…

— Tony Todd