Checks Quote by Lynn Shelton

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

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

— John Lee Hancock

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't…

— Richard Gere

I know a lot of editors who are very bitter about the directors they work with. They feel they could have done a better…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

— John Carradine

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors,…

— Michael Caine

I don't know whether I am able to come to terms with the fact that I am a director now as all this happened…

— Anoop Menon

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

— Marjane Satrapi

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

— William Monahan

I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just…

— Randy Rainbow

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to…

— Martin Freeman