Editing Quote by Rithy Panh

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work.…

— Shane Black

When you're in the editing room, as a director, you get the opportunity to look at your work. As a writer, you can rewrite.…

— Zoe Kazan

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

— Helen Mirren

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of…

— Paul Reiser

Even though I make documentaries, everyone's acting in a way. Really. And you're creating, and you're confabulating things. You can't relive reality, you can…

— Lourdes Portillo

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs…

— Joe Dante

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

— Julie Delpy

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play…

— Jack Thorne

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this…

— Al Pacino

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well…

— Scott Eastwood