Editing Quotes

Editing Quote of the day

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.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

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

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

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.

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

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

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

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.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

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

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

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

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.

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that.

Bad spellers of the world untie!

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The essence of cinema is editing.

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.