Editing Quote by Patrick Wilson

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

You do need to edit yourself as you shoot because you have fewer options in a smaller movie. In other words, when I'm shooting…

— David Twohy

Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing…

— Joe Dante

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in…

— Nancy Meyers

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room.…

— Ridley Scott

The way I work is, I always compose a shot list before I talk to anybody, including my DP. So I'll spend a couple…

— Ari Aster

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.

— Jason Reitman

Like, I've worked on movies where you go in every day and you know that what you're shooting isn't very good to start with…

— Ruben Fleischer

And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing…

— Charlie Kaufman

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on…

— Joseph Kosinski

Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

— Philippe Falardeau

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about…

— Morten Tyldum