Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Gross

I love the edited version of it.

Terri Windling

A good novel editor is invisible.

Len Wein

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

Len Wein

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

Marc Forster

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

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.

Tobias Wolff

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

Sam Mendes

I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting than shooting action. Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

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.

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.

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

Steven Soderbergh

My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

Robert Bresson

A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

V. S. Naipaul

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Tucker Max

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Tarsem Singh

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.

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.

Richard Dean Anderson

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 me.

Topher Grace

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

Robert Gottlieb

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

Steve Coogan

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

Stephen Root

Movies are an editor's medium.

Sam Rockwell

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

William Bastone

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell,

Wilfrid Sheed

Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).