Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Welles

As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

Martin Short

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

Shane Carruth

Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else is just kind of waiting and waiting and waiting.

Garry Marshall

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

Frank Darabont

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

Judith Thurman

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Julie Taymor

What I don't have in theater is editing.

Patrick Wilson

You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day.

Graydon Carter

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

John Cleese

Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

Matt Walsh

A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got. Everybody got to play to their strengths and was paired up in the right scenarios. It was very fortunate. It was exciting, the whole process. It makes more difficulty in editing 'cause there's more footage, but the guy I had handle it was a documentarian editor for a long time, so it was very useful.

Glen Hansard

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Norman Cousins

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

Edward Dmytryk

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

Julie Delpy

The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.

Terry Teachout

(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.