Cutting Quote by Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

When you cut a film, certain scenes fall away and don't fit into the shape of the movie.

— Wyck Godfrey

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

As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward…

— Catherine Hardwicke

In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another…

— Ben Mendelsohn

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

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

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like…

— Robert Rodriguez

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making…

— Mark Ruffalo

For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the…

— Brian Helgeland

One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot…

— Mahershala Ali

It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different ways so…

— Frederick Wiseman

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

— Rodrigo Santoro