Editing Quotes

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.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

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.

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.

Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

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.

Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste.

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part

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.

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.