Cutting Quote by Steven Knight

Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.

— Steven Knight

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

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't…

— Julia Stiles

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you…

— Pamela Yates

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

In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!

— Wim Wenders

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

— Wyck Godfrey

You also convert real memories, whatever that means, into film versions of those memories. Because by the time you've finished the project you can't…

— Guy Maddin

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

— Italo Calvino

A written word gets preserved in so many forms. But movies which comprise of both audio and visuals have to be done with care…

— Mani Ratnam

As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were…

— Salman Rushdie

I think it is very important that films make people remember what they have forgotten.

— Spike Lee