Editing Quotes

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

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

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.'

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.

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

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.

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

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

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

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

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

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

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

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.

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

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