Quotes by Editing I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in. Sarah Vowell fanseditinginteresting Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting Satyajit Ray finalscuttingediting The editing process, for me, is both the most fun and the most frustrating. It's the most fun because you get to see it actually piece together. But if one thing is off, it can be frustrating trying to figure out exactly what it is that's bumping you, so you try a hundred different things. Scott Foley editingfuntrying My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will. Scott Glenn purplecolorediting Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you. Sarah Dessen pageseach-dayediting In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension. Sean Durkin creatingcuttingediting Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else is just kind of waiting and waiting and waiting. Shane Carruth waitingeditingwatches There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy editorsuniqueediting In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big. Sheila Heti editingwantpeople When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play. Sheila Heti editingplaythinking To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything. Shirin Neshat editorsartistediting I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance. Shirin Neshat distancestrongediting For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works. Simon Baker importanteditingthinking A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity. Simon Pegg editingwritingthinking A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. Sofia Coppola dadeditingideas Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story. Spike Lee actingeditingway I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit. Stanley Kubrick phaseseditingthinking I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters. Steig Larsson editorsmatterediting I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid. Stephen Hopkins emotionalstupidediting People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director. Steve Martin editingdirectorspeople«1415161718192021222324»
