Top 858 Editing Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire use. I need to see the thing, in some form, and then work with it over and over and over until it makes sense to me - until its concerns approach me, until its themes come to my attention. At that editing stage, the story picks itself and it's just up to me to see it, to find it. If I've done a good job, what it all means will force me to confront it in further edits.

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

I don't like fast editing.

The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

The film is made in the editing room.

Being robbed is a really great way of editing your belongings.

You can't allow your creative sessions to be dominated by miniscule editing processes.

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

I've always loved the editing process.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.

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

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

A lot can change in the editing room.

My self-editing process is intense.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

Editing is the most companionable form of education.

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.

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

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.

CRISPR editing will allow us to enhance ourselves.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

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

I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

The essence of cinema is editing.

I love video editing.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing.

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.

I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.

You can spend hours editing an email but send it as if you wrote it in a minute.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

My life needs editing.

The hardest stories we tell are always about ourselves. How do you explain that you have been missing your mother for 20 years? I don't know how to explain that to you. I wasn't even sure I wanted to film that, because I don't know how I felt about it. I didn't want to put her through it, and I frankly wasn't ready. Because since I was 16, I just had created my own life for myself, you know? I left when I was 12. I'm 32. And I have gotten to know my mother more through editing her and looking and watching and editing her footage, you know.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Separate out the creative act from the act of editing and execution. Make it a two-step process. First, let ideas flow and encourage EVERY idea to make it to the whiteboard. Don't criticize, judge, edit, budget, or worry. An idea on the wall can't hurt anyone, so let them rip without restriction. After any and all ideas have the opportunity to "come out to play", only then should you apply your analytical and logical side to the effort. Don't mix the creative process with the editing process or you'll kill your ideas before they even get a fighting chance.

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.