Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Scott Glenn

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.

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.

Martin Short

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

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.

Michael Kors

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!

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.

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.

I'm more nervous about the showing (of the episode) than I was when they were here. When there's editing and stuff, you don't know exactly how it's going to turn out.

Colin Greenwood

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

Isabel Allende

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

Frederick Wiseman

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

Spike Jonze

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

Matt Berninger

I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

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.

Jason Reitman

I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.

Harold Ross

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.

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.

Steven Soderbergh

My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

Robert Bresson

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.

John Waters

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.

Nick Kroll

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The film is made in the editing room...

Michael Biehn

All the actors have input as far as story editing and writing. We don't just show up and say the lines. We are involved in writing the show.

Edward Dmytryk

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

Liev Schreiber

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

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.