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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
I was not raised with films. And when Alain Resnais did the editing on my first film, he said, 'You should go to the Cinematheque.' I didn't even know we had one in Paris.
There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.
Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.
I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.
I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of game for chance.
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.
People are following me because they want to see pictures of me. So why is Instagram editing them?
I'm writing, I'm directing, I'm editing, I'm mixing, I'm showrunning. There is a certain point where it's like, the work is the work.
You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day.
I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.
People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.
Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.
I always believe that editing is the kind of thing where you want to cut into a scene a little bit after it starts and get out before it ends.
My stormtrooper suit would chip underneath the armpits and in between the thighs. So they had to do a lot of editing for my costume and shave some areas down.
This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.
As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.
With digital editing, I now can make many, many versions of a scene.
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.
I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.
You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.
I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.
Editing was hard for me. It was hard to be in a room by yourself and not have that collaborative spirit. Comedies are really tight and timing is everything.
Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.
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.
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.
The editing process was a free-for-all, and since I hadn't gone to film [Dream of Life] school or anything like that, I just said, "We'll do this. We'll do that." It was a really great experience that way.
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.
A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.
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.
'The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing!
I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.
Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.
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.
One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
I have been a huge fan of Gautham; I remember him editing 'Kaakha Kaakha' and I used to pray for it to become a superhit.
My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.
Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.
Comedy is math, music is math, and editing is, so I think those all work together.
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.
