Brutal Quote by John Michael McDonagh

I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together,…

— Tavis Smiley

With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to…

— Tony Todd

I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. It's like sculpture. You just start taking…

— Derek Cianfrance

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities…

— Ralph Fiennes

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

There's a great deal of mystery in film editing, and that's because you're not supposed to see a lot of it. You're supposed to…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I believe writing is where it all begins; you can not make a film look different, you have to write it differently.

— Rakshit Shetty

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

— Anthony Minghella

In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're…

— Daniel Espinosa

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How…

— Oliver Stone

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

— Abel Ferrara

Once the movie's over, there's not much point. When the thing is edited, mixed, and color-corrected, and you've finished it... In my case, I…

— Woody Allen