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“I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things up on the board, showing them to trusted confidantes from in and outside the photo world. It started to take its shape naturally over time until I kind of ran out of ideas.”

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Author:Peter van Agtmael

“I think if the content is good and the content is interesting, the at home viewer will watch it for as long as the story is interesting thus the responsibility for making the story interesting falls on the shoulders of the reporter or the producer. Then I'm disappointed that producers have felt that television can only be told in 59 second story bursts because we've become, it's become journalism based on MTV, video electronic editing and cutting.”

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Author:Robin Leach

“[CNN host] doesn't know what's going on in the editing room. She knows what he's told happened, and she's reading it off the teleprompter, and she just accepts it. I'm not saying that they're IQ dumb or any of that. I'm saying they're not curious.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.”

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Author:Frederick Wiseman

“Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like the theater, I like the dance. And it's manageable. The food's good. I know a lot of interesting people here. I lived in Boston for 50 years or more. Wherever I am, I'm usually holed up most of the time in the editing room, and so, when I leave the editing room, even if I just take a walk, it's gorgeous. And I walk everywhere. I'm a victim of the seduction of Paris.”

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Author:Frederick Wiseman

“Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.”

Writing Hard Editing

Author:Allison Joseph

“I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance.”

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Author:Shirin Neshat

“To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.”

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Author:Shirin Neshat

“Comparing filmmaking to a plastic model, shooting is the process where you mold and color each piece, and editing is where you build a finished whole from the pieces you molded and colored. Obviously, the latter is the most enjoyable part in the making of plastic models, so editing is the process in filmmaking I enjoy the most. But at the same time, editing can be a painstaking task, too.”

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Author:Takeshi Kitano

“If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch

“In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're inspired by. But when you finally edit the movie, the movie is just a movie, so there is always a hint of disappointment, particularly when you see your first cut.”

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Author:Daniel Espinosa

“My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.”

Needs Goal Amount Shapes Editing

Author:Maya Lin

“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.”

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Author:David Mitchell

“In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.”

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Author:Walter Murch

“The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.”

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Author:Walter Murch

“You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.”

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Author:Robert De Niro

“Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“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

“The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.”

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Author:Brad Pitt

“I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.”

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Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

“I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.”

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Author:William Safire

“My life needs editing.”

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Author:Mort Sahl

“There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Heavy Shooting Editing

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.”

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Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

“I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.”

Thinking Love Natural Space Thrive Editing

Author:Will Smith

“I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.”

My Favorite Filmmaking Editing

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.”

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Author:Oliver Stone

“Good things, when short, are twice as good.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.”

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Author:George Wald

“If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.”

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Author:Bill Walsh

“If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.”

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Book:Orson Welles: Interviews

Source: Orson Welles: Interviews

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.”

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Book:Elie Wiesel: Conversations

Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations

“If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?”

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Author:Steven Wright

“You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.”

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Author:will.i.am

“For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.”

Rhythm Shooting Rely Editing

Author:Donnie Yen

“I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.”

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Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.”

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Author:Natasha Trethewey

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