Cutting Quote by Fede Alvarez

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

— Alejandro Amenabar

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

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by…

— Michael Haneke

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

— Paul Greengrass

The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

— Edward Dmytryk

From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.

— Bille August

Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have…

— Christopher Guest

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

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

— Guillermo del Toro

There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And…

— Paul Greengrass

The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working…

— Barry Sonnenfeld

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could…

— Delroy Lindo