Quotes About Editing

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

Life stood over me like an immoral schoolmistress, editing my ordered thoughts. But, with a mistaken faith in intelligence, I plodded on.

Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of Wise Blood that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant . . .

I don't like fast editing.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing - editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.

Scorsese has very defined ideas about how to shoot a scene, and he's an editor himself - we cut together. It means he's constantly thinking about my problems while he's filming.

You get so deep into something when you are filming, it's almost like writing it again when you are in the edit.

If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and has given me the best job in the world.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.

We kept my middle schooler home from school for three days before we turned in our final draft because she was so mean and so brutal at editing out all the cheesy bits. She would roll her eyes and make fun of us, and it was what we needed.

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.