Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

Steven Spielberg

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

Steve Martin

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

Steve Martin

Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.

Spike Lee

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

Steven Price

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

Richard Stallman

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

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.

Terry Gross

I love the edited version of it.

Terri Windling

A good novel editor is invisible.

Tom Rachman

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.

Rem Koolhaas

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.

Sam Rockwell

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

Robin Hobb

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

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.

Robert E. Howard

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.

Wes Anderson

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.

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 Safire

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 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.

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.