Editing Quotes

280 quotes by 246 authors

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know… — Martin Scorsese
I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing… — Will Smith
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking. — Steven Spielberg
The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into… — Steven Spielberg
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. — Oliver Stone
Good things, when short, are twice as good. — Tom Stoppard
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. — Leo Tolstoy
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. — George Wald
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number… — Bill Walsh
If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means… — Orson Welles
You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs… — will.i.am
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? — Steven Wright
For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm. — Donnie Yen
I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving… — Ashwin Sanghi
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell… — Natasha Trethewey
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me. — A A Milne
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading… — William Safire
Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so… — Jeremy Clarkson
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When youâ€™re done, you have to step back and look… — Stephen King
We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are… — Charles de Lint

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