Quotes by Editing I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. That’s why I write long form fiction - I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. I’m a problem-solver - I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again. Porochista Khakpour editingwritingyears I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. Priyanka Chopra editingwantpeople Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib. Quincy Jones editingwritingbaby I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay. Quentin Tarantino lastseditingwriting 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. Rachel True filmableediting When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think. Rachel Zucker editingmeanthinking Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out. Ralph Fiennes goneeditingthinking I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know, but I think I'm quite good at saying, "That's no good. That's no good. That's it. That's it. That's good." And I'm with the editor who goes, "No, I think you're wrong. That's not your best." There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it. Ralph Fiennes oucheditorsediting I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face... that fascinates me. Ralph Fiennes psychologymagicediting Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities. Ralph Fiennes editingideasthinking I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom. Ralph Fiennes editinggivingway So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound. Ramin Bahrani blockeditingsound Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one. Randy Thom awardscoupleediting In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences. Rem Koolhaas scriptseditingtogether The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest. Rian Johnson giving-upeditingwriting When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit. Rian Johnson editingfeelingswriting A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. Richard Bach perseveranceeditingwriting Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. Richard Chenevix Trench editingenglish-grammarwriting There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me. Richard Dean Anderson downtimeactorsediting [on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it. Richard Gere editingminddirectors«1213141516171819202122»
