Cutting Quote by Derek Cianfrance

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something…

— Stanley Kubrick

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that…

— Josh Radnor

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage,…

— Bernard Sahlins

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of…

— Quentin Tarantino

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

— Garry Marshall

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

— Clint Eastwood

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

— Ali Wong

You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from…

— Summer Glau

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

— Evangeline Lilly

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

— Divya Dutta