Editing Quotes

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

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.

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

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.

In art economy is always beauty.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

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.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.