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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

James Tate

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Editing is going to be a huge part since we're only being graded for five minutes.

The Review's labyrinthine editing process does to the written word what the Cuisinart does to broccoli.

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.

Anthony Minghella

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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

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.

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.