Quotes about edit
editing together pieces
The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them. Christian Marclay
editing long sitting
It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long. Christian Marclay
editors earth dirt
Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt. Chris DiBona
editors people pet
In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy. Fran Lebowitz
edited
I've never had the experience of being edited and never will. Fran Lebowitz
editing design choices
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. George Wald
editing atheism authorship
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. George Wald
editing years people
The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read. Norman Cousins
editors publish
The editors thought if you didn't publish it, much of this would go away. Ed Jones
editors holiday pressure rose understand
The editors have told Flemming Rose to take a holiday because no one can understand the kind of pressure he has been under. Carsten Juste
editorial integrity product
The editorial integrity of our product is a big thing.
editing requirements film
The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. Edward Dmytryk
editors critics sympathetic
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Joyce Carol Oates
editing editors people
The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated. Julie Delpy
editing attention half
(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. Terry Teachout
edited versions
I love the edited version of it. Terry Gross
editors invisible novel
A good novel editor is invisible. Terri Windling
editors laughing hypocrisy
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. Tom Rachman
editing together suspense
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences. Rem Koolhaas
editors magic painter
An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that. Sam Rockwell
editors needs peril
When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril. Robin Hobb
editors want might
As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.
editors ideas age
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. Robert E. Howard
editing sometimes
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along. Wes Anderson
editors trying agents
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. Walter Jon Williams
editors style answers
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer. Voltaire
editors numbers phones
Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number. William Raspberry
editors curious
Editors are licensed to be curious. William Zinsser
editors want strive
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. William Zinsser
editing long negative
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. William Safire
editing shooting may
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. William Mapother
editors fame claims
My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor. Woody Herman
editing want film
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