Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Kaufman

And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.

Jon Postel

I got the notebook and got the list of RFCs. That's how I got to be RFC editor - by keeping the list of who is writing which one.

Greg Behrendt

I don't have to edit myself, ... I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly.

Campbell Scott

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

Drew Barrymore

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

Doug Liman

Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

Donald Davis

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Don DeLillo

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Don DeLillo

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Dorothea Benton Frank

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

Constantin Stanislavski

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

Daniel Pipes

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

Douglass North

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

Donnie Yen

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

Colleen McCullough

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

Anthony Edwards

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

Anthony Hopkins

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.

Liane Moriarty

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

Alex Kapranos

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

Anthony Minghella

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

Alfonso Cuaron

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

Alex Ebert

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

Courtney B. Vance

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

Christopher Darden

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

Lapo Elkann

My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

Neil Marshall

I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.

Lionel Barber

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

Susanne Bier

I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.

Noam Chomsky

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.