Editing Quotes - Page 3

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

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to under an hour. I've been blessed to have great producers and a great staff to achieve that. I have a small team but they're very efficient.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it.

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.

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. Its like watching a masterpiece.

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.

The essence of cinema is editing.

You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

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.

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

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'

I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to their experience. The editing of my films is a long and selective process. I do feel that when I cut a sequence, I have an obligation to the people who are in it, to cut it so that it fairly represents what I felt was going on at the time, in the original event. I don't try and cut it to meet the standards of a producer or a network or a television show.