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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
We started Good Neighbor in like 2006? Right around the time that Kyle graduated college. And I was doing freelance editing.
My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.
30 Rock is a little different from other current sitcoms, in that it's fast-paced, but the pace comes from the actors, not the editing.
I haven't watched 'Half Baked' in 17 years, since I was editing it. It's like looking at an old picture where you have bad bangs or something.
I feel like I might be a designer or stylist - or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.
Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.
One of my favorite apps is VSCO, which is for editing photos. I think they have great filters. And then I read the New York Times.
There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.
Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.
Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.
Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.
Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even look at the visuals. The rhythm, the music of the comedy, has to work.
We may have our own ideas in the writing and editing stages, but we work out those disagreements in a constructive way.
As an actor, I felt nervous only during the release of my film. When I became a director, the anxious moments started once the editing work began.
The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.
I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
When I make films, I don't think of any other directors or their work in terms of the rhythm of the editing or the tenor of the performances.
To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.
Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.
[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.
My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.
To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.
When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.
I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound of it.
I think people are feeling more artistic and creative with something like Instagram that makes editing easy. That's a good thing for sure.
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.
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.'
For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.
Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.
I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing.
Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.
I got started on YouTube when I was a freshman in college. I was a broadcast journalism major, and I already had a lot of experience with video editing and photography.
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.
It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.
I usually just write a song and record it that day, and then that's kind of it. I'm not very good at going back and editing and tinkering it. It's pretty immediate.
Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.
With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to the editing.
I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.
Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.
With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are.
If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.
I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.
I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.
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.
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.
Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.
I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.
We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
