Quotes about editing
editing creative songwriting
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. Alex Kapranos
editing cameras trickery
I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. Drew Barrymore
editing trying rooms
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. Doug Liman
editing self voice
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. Don DeLillo
editing shooting rhythm
For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm. Donnie Yen
editing film realizing
Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at. Anthony Minghella
editing objectivity subjective
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel. Andrei Tarkovsky
editing creative actors
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. Cuba Gooding, Jr.
editing years rooms
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. Albert Brooks
editing actors crafts
I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors. Alfonso Cuaron
editing talking pieces
Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience. Robert Greene
editing together suspense
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences. Rem Koolhaas
editing my-favorite filmmaking
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking. Steven Spielberg
editing people directors
People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director. Steve Martin
editing years people
Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.
editing long pieces
I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting than shooting action. Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. Sam Mendes
editing shooting firsts
My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now. Steven Soderbergh
editing actors pieces
A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form. Robert Bresson
editing acting tools
Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story. Spike Lee
editing waiting watches
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. Shane Carruth
editing color purple
My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will. Scott Glenn
editing years people
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. Norman Cousins
editing years leather-jackets
It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later. John Waters
editing order looks
In early days, I showed everything I made. There was no such thing as editing a collection. In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over! Michael Kors
editing goal shapes
My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight. Maya Lin
editing editors play
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. Matt Walsh
editing desire trying
And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of The Aviator it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously. Martin Scorsese
editing shooting film
I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
editing together pieces
The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked. Nick Kroll
editing rooms ingredients
The film is made in the editing room... Philip Seymour Hoffman
editing shooting sometimes
Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
editing agonizing needs
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing. Mort Sahl
editing trying rooms
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room. Martin Short