Quotes About Editing

TV can edit things to make anyone look good or bad.

Everything is so computerized these days and it's all edited and everything. Everything sounds so perfect, and we just want to be a band that sounds like a band.

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.

I always believe that editing is the kind of thing where you want to cut into a scene a little bit after it starts and get out before it ends.

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being an editor than a writer, and I longed to write again.

Everybody needs an editor.

It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.

The difference between a film that ends up three hours and a film that is envisioned as three hours is that it's written that way.

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.

Erase everything you have written, Mandelstam says, but keep the notes in the margin.

One great difference between good writing, that readers overlook, and bad writing, that they fail to notice, has to do with the number of rewrites and revisions usually required by the former. It isn't at all easy to write clear, declarative prose—transparency evolves from ruthless cutting and trimming and is hard work—while lumpy, tangle-footed writing flows from the pen as if inspired by the Muse.

the first rule of art is exclusion: knowing what to leave out.

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.