Quotes About Reworking

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

Jerry Goldsmith's 'Voyager' theme is a brilliant reworking of the original material.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows have had substantial re-shoots and reworking before they've gone on the air.

What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

rewriting is where good papers emerge.

Beware: forget the reworking of characters. Obviously, the time-span is short. The first three parts, in any case, will only cover a period of three years. As for the last two, well that's God's secret and what I wouldn't give to know it.

No one thought it odd that at her funeral Elton John should perform a reworking of the song he had originally composed as hero-worship to Marilyn Monroe, for she too was an icon for a secular age and in the end icons of that kind are interchangeable.

Hacks didn't destroy, they just...creatively amended.