Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

Ethan Hawke

There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.

Evan Thomas

There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.

Jay Roach

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

James Dickey

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

Ken Auletta

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Kathryn Minshew

As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.

Kate Chopin

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Karen Thompson Walker

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

Ice Cube

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Isla Fisher

The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on the editing room floor, so it gives you a lot more room to experiment I guess. But I really enjoy doing it. I'm very comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

Hunter Hayes

Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

H. L. Mencken

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

H. L. Mencken

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

Jennifer Beals

I don't usually see what I've done. I don't often watch the film or watch the show. It's really about that experience on-set and within the scene. Because later, when the film comes out or the show comes out it's the editor's realm or the director's realm. But that moment on set, that's that electricity between me and another actor, and that's really what excites me.

I don't think any official should be editing prayer.

Jan Egeland

I am very worried about it, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Howard Shore

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

Howard Rheingold

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

Harold Ross

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.

Indira Varma

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

Indira Varma

I depend on good editors and a good director.

Phillip Noyce

But usually you're waiting around for these editors to do stuff and you get really bored. It was better for them to wait for me!

Paul Greengrass

I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get them, consistent, obviously, with the resources that you've got and the time you've got available.