Top 526 Edit Quotes & Sayings

Instagram is my edit of my life.

The Coen brothers: Of all the directors I've worked with, they're the only ones who have given me the storyboards attached to the script. It was very cool for me, because I knew when I was in close-up or if it was far away, and it also made me know that anything that happened in the edit wasn't personal. Because they edit their own movies, so they were editing it as they went.

I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

Control, edit and distill.

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for set, and then the set is food for the edit, and the edit is food for the screen. It's constant, and this is just the first stage of it.

You can't edit a blank page

I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

I'm not keen on interfering with nature; I don't want to edit my genome.

Shoot from the gut, edit with the brain

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I didn't reinvent clothing; I reinvented the edit.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album.

And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.

Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

I think that's all you do as an actor. You give ingredients for the edit, and the edit's the stew, and they try to make a meal out of it. That's all you are. You just throw things in. This is an idea, this is an idea.

I had never seen anyone edit the way that I edit before I did it, and it's just what felt right to me.

I shoot a scene, edit it, and then, two days later, I doubt whether or not it has turned out right. I reshoot a small part of it, go back to the first edit of it, and do all sorts of things.

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

Every edit is a lie.

I love to simplify and edit the contents of just about anything, but women's closets hold particular appeal to me. I edit mine about four times a year and hold a yearly 'clothing swap' to encourage my girlfriends to do the same.

I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.

If you sign up for TV, expect the edit to make things interesting.

I don't need to edit names out of songs and I don't need to edit details out of my songs because I've always been able to be honest with my music. That's the one place where I'm never ever going to change how I do things.

For action to work, you need an awful lot of coverage. Because if you do a fight sequence, you really need to be able to creed the energy in the edit or augment the energy in the edit. So you need to really, really cover it.

Seeing the first edit is the worst.

I think a lot of the logic of Google+ is much better in terms of notification of messages to you, in terms of how you post. One very obvious feature is that with Google+, after you post something, you can edit it forever. That is true of both posts and comments. I edit almost every post I make and almost every comment I make.

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

You can't edit yesterday's paper.

We must never edit God.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.

The real battle is in choosing in the edit room. It's in how you contextualize information.

[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

In TV, you are much more likely to see the episode closer to the script as written - in terms of the order of the scenes - than you would in a movie, and here's why: you don't have as many days to edit. You have 10 to 12 weeks or more to edit a feature, and you have four days to edit TV. That's a huge difference.

[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Anyone of any age, any race, any background, any education - if they write an interesting enough book - can become a published author. What it takes is imagination, the ability to put words on a paper in an interesting, perhaps even unique way, the fortitude to rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and polish, edit, polish, edit until the story sort of sings. I think everyone has a story inside him, but only a few have the persistence and, of course, the interest, to write it down and see it through.

I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like it. There's no noise on the computer. I like a typewriter because I am such a slow typist. I edit as I am committing it to paper. I like to see the words before me and I go, "Yeah, that's it." They appear before me and they fit. I don't usually take large parts out. If I get stuck early in a song, I take it as a sign that I might be writing the chorus and don't know it. Sometimes,you gotta step back a little bit and take a look at what you're doing.

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.

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.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

Write drunk; edit sober.

I don't edit on laptops anymore.

It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'

I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.

If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.

Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit and edit, I never think, "That's me." I think, "This is a character, and how do I edit this to tell a story?"

For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.