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“Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.”

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Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.”

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Author:Mira Gonzalez

“My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.”

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Author:Dennis Cooper

“I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.”

Jobs Editing Imposition Dubbing

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot [needless footage] and then don't use later on in the process.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.”

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Author:Albert Brooks

“Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.”

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Author:Eddie Kaye Thomas

“I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.”

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Author:Eddie Griffin

“I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.”

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Author:Alexander Payne

“So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.”

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Author:Ramin Bahrani

“Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me.”

Believe Stage Editing

Author:Linda Conrad

“Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.”

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Author:Leos Carax

“With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.”

“I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.”

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Author:Steig Larsson

“Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper.”

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Author:Robert E. Lee

“In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.”

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Author:Michael Arndt

“Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.”

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Author:Robert Gottlieb

“Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years... That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.”

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Author:Daniel Clowes

“I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.”

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Author:Steven Soderbergh

“My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.”

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Author:Steven Soderbergh

“The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.”

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Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.”

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Author:John Cleese

“When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.”

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Author:Matt Berninger

“For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.”

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Book:Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States

Source: Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States

“I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.”

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Author:Frank Darabont

“The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on.”

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Author:Morgan Neville

“In real life, when you speak with each other you overlap each other, so you can't fake that. Like especially when you have no cut. In a regular film when you want people to overlap you cut it that way. It's mixing and editing.”

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Author:Julie Delpy

“The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.”

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Author:Rian Johnson

“When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.”

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Author:Rian Johnson

“Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.”

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Author:Julie Delpy

“The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.”

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Author:Julie Delpy

“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.”

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Author:Joanne Harris

“Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening”

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Author:Joan Armatrading

“The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.”

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Author:Salma Hayek

“When you're done shooting, the movie that you're going to release when you're done shooting is as bad as it will ever be. And then through editing, and finishing the effects and adding music, you get to make the movie better again. So I'm really hard on myself and on the movie.”

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Author:Barry Sonnenfeld

“When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.”

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Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren't there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.”

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Author:Diane Lane

“What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.”

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Author:Albert Brooks

“I love producing my kids and my wife's TV show. I love doing that. I think that's my most natural space in the business. I would say the most natural space for me is producing or editing. That's just where I thrive.”

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Author:Willi Smith

“I used to get so worried that if a scene didn't go a certain way, then it was horrible. But then I realized that it was better to give the director options in the editing room than just being locked into how it's supposed to be.”

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Author:Katie Holmes

“I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting.”

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Author:Paul Schneider

“Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else is just kind of waiting and waiting and waiting.”

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Author:Shane Carruth

“When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even with a cut, I don't have a rough cut and then work on it so much. I have a pretty rigorous cut of the movie that's usually in the range of what the final movie is going to be. It doesn't mean I don't work on it a lot after that, but I get it into a shape so I feel I can really tell what it needs, or at least it's ready to show people.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

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