Quotes by Editing Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. Orson Scott Card spaceeditingwriting If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio. Orson Welles editinglongmean Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort. Orson Welles confusedeffortediting As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect. Orson Welles stylevisionediting You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day. Patrick Wilson shootingeditingrooms I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get them, consistent, obviously, with the resources that you've got and the time you've got available. Paul Greengrass shootingeditingtrying The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part Paul Hirsch movieeditinglying The thing about how that process works is that it's more about the editing and time for judging the ideas. Most pieces I publish each week have been around for months. This is a response to the beginning of the strip, when I was making them so quickly. I would just conceive a piece, finish it, and then the next day see it in the paper. That was when I was doing dailies four days a week. Paul Madonna next-dayeditingideas 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 Paul Reiser actingdoneediting I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting. Paul Schneider being-in-loveeditingthinking When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word. Pedro Almodovar movieeditingwriting Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH. Peggy Noonan editorsoceanediting Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself. Penelope Cruz worst-enemyeditinglooks Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows. Pete Waterman editingrealitypeople I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things up on the board, showing them to trusted confidantes from in and outside the photo world. It started to take its shape naturally over time until I kind of ran out of ideas. Peter van Agtmael monthseditingideas When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place. Philip Morrison choiceseditingfall I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting. Philip Pearlstein honestyspaceediting The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not. Philip Seymour Hoffman shoppingcakeediting The film is made in the editing room. Philip Seymour Hoffman ingredientseditingrooms If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film. Pirjo Honkasalo cuttingepicediting«1112131415161718192021»
