Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Kroll

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

Scott Glenn

My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

Margaret Haddix

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

Kin Hubbard

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

Michael Kors

In early days, I showed everything I made. There was no such thing as editing a collection. In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Michael Tilson Thomas

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

Rand Paul

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

James Franco

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Henry Adams

Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

Pat Oliphant

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

Martin Scorsese

And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of The Aviator it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously.

Martin Scorsese

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

Lisa Scottoline

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

Laura Hillenbrand

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it

Liev Schreiber

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

Lynn Shelton

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

Mort Sahl

My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.

Ridley Scott

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The film is made in the editing room...

Martin Scorsese

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

Maya Lin

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

Tanith Lee

An editor suggested to me I might try contemporary horror. At first this didn't appeal-then the idea arrived.

E. B. White

As a New York-based sports editor put it to me,

Michael Gartner

As an editorial writer you are a reporter, using the facts to persuade as well as inform,

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.

Miguel de Icaza

After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.

Annalee Newitz

Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

Craig Zadan

The way Rob Marshall has edited this movie, you can't just go in there and say take this out or take that out. It was all constructed so intricately.

This is about reporters who fell in love with their story and couldn't view it objectively. That is the job of editors and senior staff, to dampen journalistic enthusiasm that can't be supported by the facts.

Mark Burnett

It's not only the talented editors and producers but also the machines,

Spike Jonze

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

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.

Steve Coogan

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