Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

David Ogilvy

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

Colin Greenwood

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

Dan Rather

Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least, it must be turned in one direction - only one direction at a time ... Who chooses what direction to point the camera, and why?

David Zinczenko

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

David Chase

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

David Benioff

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

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.

Andrew Marr

I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,

Jackie Chan

He wants final editing rights and the final look at the movie and so on,

Bill Schneider

He is the owner and editor of (a prominent) investment magazine, ... Staying in the race would not be a good investment.

He's always loved being a newspaper editor and writer and publisher.

Craig Zadan

His reputation, in terms of going into the editing room and working on the pictures himself, was much less with this picture.

Ronit Roy

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.

There is a distinction between something that has gone through an editorial process as opposed to something put up by someone that has been through none of those processes,

Joseph Cook

We took it out in the editing process,

Jacob Whitesides

I think a lot of people think it's easy to just post stuff. They think it's the easy way to fame nowadays, but it's been hard. You have to film the video, which takes forever because I'm super picky about all my takes and stuff. Then you have to edit it and upload it, and doing that three times a week is very, very difficult.

Glossy magazine editors would kill for that interview

James Carville

He's got to show these right wingers that he's got a backbone, you know. It's why the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show 'em that you're tough.

James Carville

He's got to show the right-wingers that he's got backbone. Go ahead, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching. Show them you're tough.

Rebekah Brooks

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

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.

Garth Nix

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.

Alice Temperley

I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.

Per Petterson

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of course, I work on the page I am on until I am happy with it. I might even say that I try to state the landscape.

Michael Hastings

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.