Beautiful Quote by Edward Blishen

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.

— Desiree Akhavan

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

— Esther Freud

It's a product of being an actor, you know? A lot of your work doesn't end up on camera and some of the best…

— John Leguizamo

It's hard for people to understand editing, I think. It's absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you have to…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . . . by cosmetic surgeons.

— Ricky Gervais

Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear,…

— Margery Williams

Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.

— Thomas Bidegain

I went through a phase of deep introspection. I realised that while doing films back to back, I was getting burnt out and not…

— Amala Paul

“My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the…

— Jaeda DeWalt

I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving…

— Rachel Kushner

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

— Daniel Okrent