Quotes by Editing For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me. A. A. Milne editingwritinglong That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. Abel Ferrara away-from-youediting Bad spellers of the world untie! Adam Savage editingwritingworld I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit. Adam Yauch camerasstrongediting God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man. Aiden Wilson Tozer editingmenjesus I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan editingteacherdirectors A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is. Alan Parker solitudeeditingdirectors Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie. Albert Brooks cuttingactorsediting What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything. Albert Brooks editingroomsyears The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. Alex Kapranos songwritingcreativeediting All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing. Alexander Payne editingwritingmean I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors. Alfonso Cuaron craftsactorsediting I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it. Alice Englert growing-upeditingwriting Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing. Allison Joseph hardeditingwriting LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species. Ambrose Bierce independenceindependentediting Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace. Amy Waldman criminalseditingreality You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. Anatole France sentenceseditingwriting Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel. Andrei Tarkovsky objectivitysubjectiveediting Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy. Ann Friedman editingjobsthinking I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt. We look for stories that are solutions-oriented, but not irrationally upbeat, from writers with a strong voice. For LadyJournos, where I'm curating not editing. Ann Friedman stronghurtediting1234567891011»
