Editing Quote by Billy Lawrence Download Open image “It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.” — Billy Lawrence ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editing Nightmare
Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The editing process, for me, is both the most fun and the most frustrating. It's the most fun because you get to see it… — Scott Foley Copy Share Image
I guess if editing doesn't hurt, you're probably not doing it properly. I find it quite difficult. The hardest part is believing that it's… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Editing is a meditative process. I enjoy it the most. I am not dealing with 200 people. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror. — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know. — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan. — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person… — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
You have to lean into the turn. On every creative aspect, you have to lean into what's working. — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm done with the shows about "women got murdered by husband." My wife watches them constantly, but it makes me want to kill myself.… — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs. — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect. — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively. — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing. — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba." — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way. — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement,… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image