Best Quote by David Lowery

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue…

— Bille August

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of…

— Lucy Liu

In any movie, there are a number of scenes that get cut in an effort to keep the film from running too long. Some…

— Robert B. Weide

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

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know,…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you…

— Chris Messina

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

— Mitch Glazer

For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the…

— Brian Helgeland

As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward…

— Catherine Hardwicke

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

— Sanam Saeed

What happens between action and cut for me is a blur, I go almost into a whiteout, and then I see the film and…

— Diane Lane