Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Ambrose

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

Woody Allen

I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.

Woody Allen

The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.

Woody Allen

I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.

Vera Farmiga

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Robin Hobb

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

Robert Greene

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.

Robert Anton Wilson

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

Richard Gere

Editing a film is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

Rebekah Brooks

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

Rebekah Brooks

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

Tracy Pollan

I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's wrong with it and what's great about it and what needs to change, but it's hard for me to organize my thoughts.

Sarah Dessen

Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.

Procrustes was an editor.

Sarah Vowell

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

Sara Shepard

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.

Walter Jon Williams

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Voltaire

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

William Raspberry

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

William Zinsser

Editors are licensed to be curious.

William Zinsser

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.

William Mapother

One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.

Woody Herman

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Walter Murch

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

Warren E. Burger

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.

Joseph Kanon

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

Joseph Kanon

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

Ralph Fiennes

I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face... that fascinates me.

Ralph Fiennes

I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it.

Ralph Fiennes

I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.

Rachel True

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

Scott Pelley

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

Terry Teachout

(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.