American Quote by Louis Leterrier

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

— Wim Wenders

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing…

— Joe Dante

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

— William Monahan

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act,…

— John Frankenheimer

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

— Logan Lerman

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

The essence of cinema is editing.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Movies are an editor's medium.

— Stephen Root

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the…

— Rithy Panh

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

— Anonymous

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

— Norman Jewison