Quotes by Editing What I don't have in theater is editing. Julie Taymor theater editing Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky. Julie Delpy acting editing writing I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of game for chance. Jørgen Leth games editing ideas Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing. K. M. Soehnlein editing writing firsts I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing. Karen Thompson Walker editing writing moving The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition. Kate DiCamillo editors editing book I used to get so worried that if a scene didn't go a certain way, then it was horrible. But then I realized that it was better to give the director options in the editing room than just being locked into how it's supposed to be. Katie Holmes editing giving directors You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job. Keith Rabois editing writing jobs When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things. Ken Burns editing people fall I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content. Ken Burns records shapes editing You must stop editing--or you'll never finish anything. Begin with a time-management decision that indicates when the editing is to be finished: the deadline from which you construct your revisionary agenda. Ask yourself, 'How much editing time is this project worth?' Then allow yourself that time. If it's a 1,000-word newspaper article, it's worth editing for an hour or two. Allow yourself no more. Do all the editing you want, but decide that the article will go out at the end of the allotted time, in the form it then possesses. Kenneth Atchity decision editing two Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I'm behind the Avid, putting the flick together. Kevin Smith avid editing together One of my favorite apps is VSCO, which is for editing photos. I think they have great filters. And then I read the New York Times. Kiernan Shipka new-york editing thinking The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited. Kim Smith editing home writing If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. Kingsley Amis editing writing littles Because the Pang brothers are twins, they would rotate days on set. One of them would be editing, and one of them would be shooting. Kristen Stewart brother would-be editing Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made. Kurt Russell editing running jobs Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all. Larry McMurtry editing life art To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that. Lasse Hallstrom schedules editing ideas I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience. The vocal performances are reported for over several years and the actors are very rarely in recording studios together. That's why the editor has got to all these different performances and edit them together to create the illusion of spontaneity and real action. Lee Unkrich cutting real editing «7891011121314151617»