Quotes by Editing When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it. Sue Tompkins assumptioneditinglooks The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they usually have some relation of how physical that stack becomes. When I'm editing it together, the density of the papers is an indicator to be like, "You need to stop." Sue Tompkins editingtogetherneeds Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing. Sufjan Stevens toolseditingthinking Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. Sydney Pollack formeditingwriting A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. T. Davis Bunn editingwritingworld I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before. Taika Waititi viewseditingthinking Comparing filmmaking to a plastic model, shooting is the process where you mold and color each piece, and editing is where you build a finished whole from the pieces you molded and colored. Obviously, the latter is the most enjoyable part in the making of plastic models, so editing is the process in filmmaking I enjoy the most. But at the same time, editing can be a painstaking task, too. Takeshi Kitano moldcolorediting An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. T. S. Eliot editorseditingwriting Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do. Tamora Pierce editingbookthinking (R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end. Terry Teachout halfeditingattention The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is transformed into a ruthless one. No word escapes my scrutiny. It is here where I see what boundaries need to be set. Terry Tempest Williams cuttingeditingwriting For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards. Thom Powers takeneditingyears Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror. Thomas Bidegain mirrorseditingdark Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you shoot the movie and it's an entirely different experience than you would expect from reading the script. And then, there's the whole post process and the editing, and it becomes something else entirely. Thomas Ian Nicholas different-experiencesreadingediting When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like that's the movie that I want to see. Thomas Tull doneeditingwatches Caesar is not above the grammarians. Tiberius editingwriting Everyone needs an editor. Timothy Foote editorseditingwriting [M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes-ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases. Tom Bissell editingbelievebook Save the gerund and screw the whale. Tom Stoppard whaleseditingwriting Good things, when short, are twice as good. Tom Stoppard good-thingseditingwriting«1617181920212223242526»
