Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Parker

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

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.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

Denis Leary

I try and shoot as often as a can, I cross shoot. I have at least two cameras rolling at the same time. So I'll have two actors or two sets of actors at a time so everybody's basically on camera. So when they improvise we have everybody's coverage. And you can then go in the editing room and find the energy still stays there.

Charlie Kaufman

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

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.

Barry Sonnenfeld

When you're done shooting, the movie that you're going to release when you're done shooting is as bad as it will ever be. And then through editing, and finishing the effects and adding music, you get to make the movie better again. So I'm really hard on myself and on the movie.

Til Schweiger

I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set.

Brian Eno

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

James Tate

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

Rohit Shetty

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

Diane Lane

You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren't there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.

Dennis Ritchie

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

Ben Shahn

I confess that Roy [Stryker] was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.

Brit Marling

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

Clay Shirky

When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.

Abel Ferrara

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Tim Story

When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.

Cameron Diaz

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

Barry Levinson

As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.

Albert Brooks

What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. Its like watching a masterpiece.

David Antin

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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

Alex Kapranos

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

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.

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.

Donnie Yen

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

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?