Quotes about edit
editors information lawyer
As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers. Graydon Carter
editing years two
Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again. John Cleese
editing editors play
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got. Everybody got to play to their strengths and was paired up in the right scenarios. It was very fortunate. It was exciting, the whole process. It makes more difficulty in editing 'cause there's more footage, but the guy I had handle it was a documentarian editor for a long time, so it was very useful. Matt Walsh
edit women
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau
editor great guts late owned public reporting role starts washington
This was great reporting. I think the public should know that great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. And the role of the late Katherine Graham, who owned The Washington Post, is not to be underestimated. Dan Rather
editors judgments newspaper producers scripts tv
They will have to think through their scripts and make their own judgments just as newspaper editors and TV producers do.
editors trying pitching
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up. Jim Crace
editing ideas creative
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative. Glen Hansard
editors giving safe
Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual. Gilbert K. Chesterton
editing trying shooting
I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get them, consistent, obviously, with the resources that you've got and the time you've got available. Paul Greengrass
editing clear-head trying
I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have. Judd Apatow
editing acting input
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 Paul Reiser
editing forever fiction
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. Leos Carax
editing people want
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 when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. Priyanka Chopra
editing wish process
I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one. Mike Nichols
editing perfect may
Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been. Joe Dante
editing giving guy
It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.
editing broken rooms
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
editing records shapes
I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content. Ken Burns
editors very-good collaborators
A very good editor is almost a collaborator. Ken Follett
editors people certain
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
editors cities judgement
making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors. Margaret Atwood
editing giving way
I used to get so worried that if a scene didn't go a certain way, then it was horrible. But then I realized that it was better to give the director options in the editing room than just being locked into how it's supposed to be. Katie Holmes
editing trying ongoing
Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix. Lorrie Moore
editors people priests
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. Michael D. Higgins
editors trying newspapers
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. Mark Twain
editors eggs bugs
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
editors scare citizens
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me. Matt Drudge
edited
After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.
editors clothes legs
That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.
editing watches want
And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I know exactly what we have. And so I can then go into the editing room and be like "I want you to do this moment, this moment, this joke, that joke. I'd like to see 3 versions." Nicholas Stoller
editors giving perspective
Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.
editors people world
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor. Mark Helprin