“I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what they do and then leaving. I like attention, but it actually gives me a little less to work with as a performer if people are editing themselves and not being them.” PeopleIfsGivingLittlesRoomsAttentionWallMusicianGive MeLeavingPerformersEditing Author:Travis Morrison
“I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking . . . just letting things sift and settle, come to you.” ThinkingWritingImportantHalfCuttingWalkingCookingDrivingSettlingEditorsEditing Author:Ben Fountain
“There is interest in a crime-based reality show. With my novels, we are now editing the second book in a series about a defense lawyer whose name is Samantha Brinkman. And I am reviewing speaking engagement opportunities.” BookShowsRealityOpportunityNamesInterestNovelCrimeSeriesDefenseLawyerEngagementEditingReality ShowsSamantha Author:Marcia Clark
“One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring of original music that I was planning on composing. The decision was mostly predicated on knowing how time consuming the editing of dialogue can be and given the various locations we shot in, I didn't want to worry about having to mix room tones in such a short amount of time.” WantFirstsMadeUseWould BeFilmGivenDecisionRoomsWorryKnowingAmountDirectorsShotsOriginalsSilentVariousPlanningDialogueToneEditingLocationConsumingComposingTime ConsumingHide And SeekOriginal Music Author:Garth Kravits
“I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.” WayDifferentFormCreativityCuttingPaintingFindingsPhotographyExcitedVideoLayersNew WaysEditingImmediacyCollages Author:Mickalene Thomas
“I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.” WritingThreeShootingEditingThree Times Author:Mark Ruffalo
“My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.” FirstsThreeHoursCuttingMinutesEditing Author:Mark Ruffalo
“When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.” LightStuffWrittenColdGet BackEditing Author:Ricky Gervais
“Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one.” MadeSometimesGivenSoundDecisionEffectsCoupleArtisticVisualsAwardsEditingVisual Effects Author:Randy Thom
“I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends. I spent eight months editing because we had 24 hours of footage that made no sense and I learned a lot about directing while editing that film.” MadeSelfFilmHoursMonthsShotsEightBunchFeaturesEditingJimmy Author:Julie Delpy
“I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.” MadeMistakeSawsEditing Author:Julie Delpy
“I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.” WayStoriesTogetherProudFilmmakerMealsChefEditingCastingCinematography Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.” IfsSocialLinesTalkingPiecesMovementTimingEditingDocumentariesTheatricalSocial MovementsTalking Heads Author:Robert Greene
“I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre.” WayKindUseProblemWantedLeftLanguageGenreProseSpokesEditorsArtificialEditingStubbornLeft AloneAdverseUkrainianDeference Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“I try and shoot as often as I can, I cross shoot. I have at least two cameras rolling at the same time. So I'll have two actors or two sets of actors at a time so everybody's basically on camera. So when they improvise we have everybody's coverage. And you can then go in the editing room and find the energy still stays there.” TryingStillsTwoActorsEnergyRoomsCrossesCamerasRollingEditingCoverage Author:Denis Leary
“Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.” PlayActorsStructureMusicalEditingSequenceAdjustment Author:Jeff Britting
“Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.” DarkPeriodsToughMirrorsTruthfulEditingDeep Dark Author:Thomas Bidegain
“Most of my material is , it doesn't necessarily involve a lot of editing. So even the show with the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, I don't have to worry about some of the material being inappropriate.” WorldShowsWorryMaterialsMeetingsEditingPhiladelphiaInappropriate Author:Jim Gaffigan
“John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and all the rest of the Shadows cast came out to California and they finished it off and he cut it. He turned the garage into an editing room and he was by then a director of Shadows. That's the only thing he'd directed. But, he loved it.” RoomsDealsCuttingDirectorsShotsShadowCastsFinishedCaliforniaContractsEditingGarage Author:Gena Rowlands
“A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could do it. But at a certain point, you need a strong interpretive conviction and, as you say, an "intangible" relationship to what you are doing.” IfsNeedsLooksHandsCertainStrongDealsGlassesConvictionEditingManuscriptsIntangibleMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Oliver Harris
“I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.” WantDoneWould BeValuesBalanceProjectsSakeFamiliarFortunateUncertainEditingPrivilegedEditorialsScholarly Author:Oliver Harris
“I was crying when I was editing [Beacher] but I stopped all the screenings years ago because I had a headache but then I had seen it again... Well I always cry at the same place, when they play that song "Wind Beneath My Wings". It gets you.” YearsWellsPlaySongCryWindYears AgoWingsEditingHeadacheScreening Author:Garry Marshall
“I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.” IfsWritingFirstsSelfTypeComputerConsciousRoughEditingSelf ConsciousTypingRough Drafts Author:Barack Obama
“I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.” IfsCookingDinnerStoresBunchPreparationMeatMealsBuyingIngredientsEditingGroceriesEditsGrocery StoresRaw Meat Author:Casey Neistat
“I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that.” VideoCuriousCapabilityEditingIphoneVideo Editing Author:Casey Neistat
“With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are.” HandsTogetherRememberFilmRoomsCuttingDirectorsAlternativesEditing Author:Julia Stiles
“I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating for me. I directed a short series for Hulu called Paloma and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting.” PlayRunningRoomsActingNew YorkSummerTheaterSeriesTinyEditing Author:Julia Stiles
“It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But honestly, those folks are lucky as lottery winners.” PeopleKnowsWellsMeanBookSelfDoneStoriesProblemMightExampleLuckyLettersMarketingFolksBe GoodHonestlySellingWinnerPublishingEditingPublicityLotteryLayoutQueries Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“"Kindness" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.” MeanDifferentLightFeltKindnessCasesTrumpFairsDifferent ThingsEditingSupporterCourtesyInterviewers Author:George Saunders
“There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.” WayWritingFirstsMotherCareersStyleElementsInstinctCriticsVisualsEditing Author:Lena Dunham
“I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.” ThinkingKnowsMadeSometimesReasonStuffInterestInvolvedPrintEditingMechanicGet Involved Author:Garry Winogrand
“I have a company where I'm trying to get projects off the ground. Me and my partner Madeleine Sackler, we just shot our first feature in a maximum security prison where about 95% of the cast were incarcerated men. We're editing that and there's a doc going with it.” MenTryingFirstsCompanySecurityProjectsShotsPrisonCastsPartnersFeaturesEditingMaximumMadeleines Author:Boyd Holbrook
“The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.” IfsThinkingWantMadeIdeasSongParticularLeavingI Want YouEditing Author:Nick Cave
“Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.” ThinkingNeedsStoriesTogetherPowerfulElementsMessagesImpactConsumersEditingChordsVocalMixingInstrumentationGreat Lyric Author:Joey Sturgis
“Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made.” GivingShouldMadeDifferentRunningJobsActorsRoomsReadyDirectorsShotsPreparedHopefullyBest ThingsEditingBe PreparedDo The BestProcedures Author:Kurt Russell
“Songs are like my children, from the concept phase, to writing, to recording, then editing and all of the work that went into it and the millions of listens. Then you move away from it and you never see it again.” WritingChildrenMovingSongMillionsConceptsMy ChildrenPhasesEditing Author:Granger Smith
“The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.” FirstsMadeStillsBookProcessLaughingGoneJokesFirst TimeMercyEditorsEditingAmazedFunny ThingsRelentlessWatson Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything out but rather adding, because I'm always stripping down. I tend to under-write rather than over-write.” ThinkingWritingTryingMeanTwoNovelEditingStripping Author:Kate DiCamillo
“[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes. I can edit almost as fast as I'm thinking, editing with celluloid means always searching for this little reel of film, and number it, and scribble on it with some sort of pens, and gluing it together, and working on a flatbed. It's much, much slower.” ThinkingMeanLittlesI CanTogetherFilmNumbersRevolutionRight NowFasterDigitalPensEditingEditsVolcanoesDoing RightScribblesCelluloidDigital Revolution Author:Werner Herzog
“By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.” WayTodayFilmCamerasNarrativeFeaturesDigitalEditingLaptopsDigital Cameras Author:Werner Herzog
“This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.” StillsHandsFilmEasyInterestTechnologyComputerNotionEditing Author:Hal Hartley
“Over time it just got more and more intense as far as the trust factor. For example, when we started editing the film [Dream of Life], I thought, man, I need to make sense of all the footage I have; I need to ground the film. And one day I was hanging out in Patti's [Smith] bedroom, which is where Patti works, and in the corner of her bedroom is this great chair, and that's when she began showing her personal things to me. The camera was there, and we realized that we were really making the movie and making sense of the footage in the movie.” MenNeedsDreamFilmExampleOne DayCamerasCornersIntenseFactorsMake SenseChairsHanging OutBedroomEditingPersonal Things Author:Steven Sebring
“The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And I didn't want to tame it, either. I wanted it to be different. It's not your typical documentary.” WantDifferentDreamWantedTogetherFilmAnimalEditingTypicalDocumentariesNonlinear Author:Steven Sebring
“That was an amazing experience [making Dream of Life]. It's hard to imagine that we were editing every day for a year. And it was pretty extraordinary; it also went by super fast. But every day was an experiment.” YearsHardDreamImagineExtraordinaryExperimentsImagine ThatEditingAmazing Experiences Author:Steven Sebring
“Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at editing. He would take my far-out ideas and tame them and make sense of them.” WayIdeasDreamSchoolMake SenseEditorsEditingOld SchoolDiligent Author:Steven Sebring
“I would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a great moment for a voiceover, or a poem," and then we'd bring in some sound design.” MomentsDreamSoundRoomsDesignEditingGreat MomentsSound Design Author:Steven Sebring
“There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the layers, try to make things a little bit more understood. We would move scenes around. We'd try all these things.” TryingLittlesDreamFilmMovingBitsSceneLittle BitUnderstoodLayersEditing Author:Steven Sebring
“Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.” DreamWantedFilmProcessRoomsScriptsEditing Author:Steven Sebring
“The editing process was a free-for-all, and since I hadn't gone to film [Dream of Life] school or anything like that, I just said, "We'll do this. We'll do that." It was a really great experience that way.” WaySaidDreamSchoolFilmProcessGoneEditingReally GreatGreat Experiences Author:Steven Sebring
“You start to find a rhythm and usually if it makes me laugh or comment in the editing room then I knew that's what's going to happen in the audience. That first reaction is usually the right reaction.” IfsFirstsHappensRoomsAudienceLaughingReactionsRhythmCommentEditingMake Me Laugh Author:Denzel Washington