“When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.” PeopleIfsMightFallMastersElementsFinalsEpisodesEditingTerrific Author:Ken Burns
“I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's wrong with it and what's great about it and what needs to change, but it's hard for me to organize my thoughts.” NeedsI CanHardVery GoodEditingOrganizeMy ThoughtsNeed A ChangeSpecialtyI Can Read Author:Tracy Pollan
“I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.” WayIdeasProblemCreativePicksOriginalsCriticsLeavingAbstractPensEditingEditsSnob Author:Glen Hansard
“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.” ThinkingImportantFilmActorsSoundTelevisionCamerasMediumsEditingLensesCamera Lenses Author:Simon Baker
“I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.” UsedActorsMaterialsPerformancesUsed To BeCraftsVisualsI Have LearnedEditing Author:Alfonso Cuaron
“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.” FiveCuttingCreatingShotsRuinsTensionSecondsYou ChooseEditingExpanding Author:Sean Durkin
“If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.” IfsLooksObjectsComputerWarmFeminineEditingBassCurvy Author:Colin Greenwood
“There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.” ActorsElementsNormalScriptsProductionsEditingCastingEditsDowntime Author:Richard Dean Anderson
“Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.” SometimesEditing Author:Wes Anderson
“I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.” WritingYearsFilmProcessSidesGrowing UpSawsGrowingGrewGrew UpAffectedEditingWriting ProcessFilm Set Author:Alice Englert
“That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.” EditingAway From You Author:Abel Ferrara
“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.” KnowsWayHelpingStoriesActingDirectorsMusic IsToolsProductionsPostsFilmmakerFilmmakingEditingCostumesCinematographyPost Production Author:Spike Lee
“When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.” IfsWritingFilmMysteryDiscoveryCuriosityIntenseShootingCinemaMovieResolveNew ThingsEditingGlimpseEnigmaCinematicFilm DirectorsUncoveringRelay Races Author:Pedro Almodovar
“So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.” IfsNeedsMatterStoriesTodayCrossesInvestmentConsumersEnterpriseApplicationPlatformsEditingDesktop Author:Miguel de Icaza
“The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.” WaySometimesTogetherPiecesEditingShocked Author:Nick Kroll
“The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.” BitsCreativeSongwritingEditing Author:Alex Kapranos