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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Quotes by Abel Ferrara

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Quotes by Aaron Eckhart

I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.

Quotes by Yvette Mimieux

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Quotes by William Safire

Editing Room Quotes

I don't like to do any editing on guitars. I think the more editing you do, it just takes away from the feel of the performance.

Quotes by Wayne Static

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Quotes by Walter Murch

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

Quotes by Walter Murch

'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing...

Quotes by Walter Murch

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so...

Quotes by Walter Murch

Go Quotes

With the advanced editing technologies, it's not difficult to play double roles these days. It can be done easily.

Quotes by Vijay Antony

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Quotes by Vera Farmiga

With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to the editing.

Quotes by Tony Todd

I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push the buttons and don't even want to know how to load and unload the files.

Quotes by Tom Scholz

For film at the beginning of the 20th century, they didn't even know what editing was yet. Actors didn't know how to perform in front of the camera. There wasn't sound.

Quotes by Tom Bissell

Good Quotes

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

Quotes by Tom Anderson

I think people are feeling more artistic and creative with something like Instagram that makes editing easy. That's a good thing for sure.

Quotes by Tom Anderson

I believe you make a movie three times: once in the development process - putting the ingredients like the script, cast and crew together - once in the shooting process, and once in the editing process.

Quotes by Tim Bevan

I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set.

Quotes by Til Schweiger

It's hard for people to understand editing, I think. It's absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you have to form it - this raw, unedited, very long footage.

Quotes by Thelma Schoonmaker

Know Quotes

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

Quotes by Thelma Schoonmaker

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

Quotes by Thelma Schoonmaker

With digital editing, I now can make many, many versions of a scene.

Quotes by Thelma Schoonmaker

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

Quotes by Terry Gilliam

I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average,...

Quotes by Tao Lin

Me Quotes

I love watching action films, and especially the little moments of wit and humor in the choreography in a lot of them. The editing of an action sequence often has great moments of comic timing.

Quotes by Susanna Fogel

The process of working with the second unit director and basically sharing your workload with another director is such an interesting, delicate thing - and entrusting that person with your vision and making sure that you are not adding a...

Quotes by Susanna Fogel

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

Quotes by Sue Naegle

I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to...

Quotes by Stieg Larsson

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

Quotes by Steven Price

Music Quotes

I think everyone knows that I'm always the one that's the busiest in Maiden. When we're not touring or recording, I'm still doing loads of Maiden stuff - video editing and god knows what else - so I get a...

Quotes by Steve Harris

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to...

Quotes by Steve Forbert

I've worked on a set before, know something about cameras, and done some editing.

Quotes by Steve Carr

While there are certainly food-focused content out there on the Web and on TV, most of this content need to weave through many layers of editing before it reaches the viewer.

Quotes by Steve Chen

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Quotes by Stephen Hopkins

People Quotes

I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power...

Quotes by Stephen Colletti

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.

Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers...

Quotes by Spike Jonze

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Quotes by Sofia Coppola

I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself...

Quotes by Simon Schama

Think Quotes

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

Quotes by Simon Baker

I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I find that enjoyable work.

Quotes by Sheldon Harnick

I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether, and my job is to find what that book is through my editing.

Quotes by Sheila Heti

I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't want to do anything to increase the divide between mothers and nonmothers - I think that divide is...

Quotes by Sheila Heti

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

Quotes by Sean Durkin

Time Quotes

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.

Quotes by Satyajit Ray

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

Quotes by Sarah Kay

I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing.

Quotes by Sarah Dessen

Before we started shooting 'Homecoming,' we were in the writer's room for 'Mr. Robot.' I was also editing Season 3 of 'Mr. Robot' while I was prepping for the 'Homecoming' shoot. So yeah, it's a lot of hats.

Quotes by Sam Esmail

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Quotes by Salma Hayek

Work Quotes

I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days,...

Quotes by Salman Khan

You can spend hours editing an email but send it as if you wrote it in a minute.

Quotes by Sally Rooney

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people...

Quotes by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.

Quotes by Ronit Roy

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as...

Quotes by Rohit Shetty

Writing Quotes

Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.

Quotes by Robert Patterson

Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other...

Quotes by Robert Mankoff

What helps change bad writing into mediocre writing is editing. Editing is in bad shape in print journalism, and is in virtually nonexistent shape in online journalism.

Quotes by Robert Christgau

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. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

Quotes by Ridley Scott

Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.

Quotes by Rick Riordan

You Quotes

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.

Quotes by Rick Moranis

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

Quotes by Richard Rhodes

As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on...

Quotes by Richard LaGravenese

In 'Serena,' stuff happens, then nastier stuff, without ever engaging the viewer's rooting interest or sick fear. Sometimes it's a question of sloppiness on the set or in the editing room.

Quotes by Richard Corliss

There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for...

Quotes by Richard Dean Anderson

I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.

Quotes by Rich Brian

I love video editing.

Quotes by Redman

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

Quotes by Ray Harryhausen

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

Quotes by Rachel True

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Quotes by R. A. Salvatore

I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was...

Quotes by R. J. Cutler

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So...

Quotes by Priyanka Chopra

I used to sit on the editing table to see where I may have gone wrong because after editing, only the good parts go on screen.

Quotes by Prosenjit Chatterjee

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.

Quotes by Peter Landesman

I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.

Quotes by Peter Billingsley

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

Quotes by Pete Waterman

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 it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

Quotes by Paul Reiser

Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think. The kind of teaching I do is more like editing than anything else. The kind of editing book editors used to do before lunch. The kind of editing...

Quotes by Paul Muldoon

It's so easy to make albums with overdubbing and editing these days, but I really prefer playing live and just getting the music to sound right because the musicians, the songs and the performances are good.

Quotes by Paul Gilbert

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.

Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Quotes by Orson Welles

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

Quotes by Oliver Stone

I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even at that point. It's not really until you're locked that you can call it quits.

Quotes by Noah Hawley

I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing...

Quotes by Nicole Eggert

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

Quotes by Nick Kroll

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

Quotes by Nicholas Jarecki

When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset...

Quotes by Nicholas Jarecki

When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together...

Quotes by Neal Asher

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 the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

Quotes by Nancy Meyers

My life needs editing.

Quotes by Mort Sahl

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 is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it....

Quotes by Morten Tyldum

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

Quotes by Morten Tyldum

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.

Quotes by Mira Nair

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really...

Quotes by Miguel de Icaza

Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable for exactly the opposite reason: You can get your news without a filter.

Quotes by Michael Specter

In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors, and the editor, and it makes the writing process...

Quotes by Michael Arndt

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

Quotes by Meagan Tandy

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

Quotes by Maya Lin

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love...

Quotes by Mary Stuart Masterson

The truth is a lot of people doing professional video editing and things like that are using these displays that are mounted in place and they have stands already. When they upgrade displays, they take them out and put them...

Quotes by Marques Brownlee

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my...

Quotes by Margo Lanagan

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