Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judd Apatow

I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have.

Paul Reiser

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on

Leos Carax

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

Priyanka Chopra

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.

Mike Nichols

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

Joe Dante

Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.

Joe Dante

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

Joe Dante

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

Ken Burns

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

Ken Follett

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

Ken Follett

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

Margaret Atwood

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

Katie Holmes

I used to get so worried that if a scene didn't go a certain way, then it was horrible. But then I realized that it was better to give the director options in the editing room than just being locked into how it's supposed to be.

Lorrie Moore

Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix.

Michael D. Higgins

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

Mark Twain

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Mark Twain

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

Matt Drudge

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

Mark Twain

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

Mark Twain

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

Nicholas Stoller

And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I know exactly what we have. And so I can then go into the editing room and be like "I want you to do this moment, this moment, this joke, that joke. I'd like to see 3 versions."

Nicholas Stoller

Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.

Mark Helprin

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

Christian Marclay

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

Christian Marclay

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

Chris DiBona

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

Fran Lebowitz

In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.

Fran Lebowitz

I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.

George Wald

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

George Wald

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Natasha Trethewey

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

Miguel de Icaza

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

Joseph Addison

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.