“The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.” IfsWayYearsFirstsFilmCuttingSeeingConversationMachinesFinalsIf I CouldEditingEditedOld WaysAvid Author:Walter Murch
“I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft.” WritingFirstsShowsRoomsSickSevenEditorsDozenEditing Author:David Sedaris
“I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.” ThinkingFirstsMayTeachStudentsPaperFinalsHardestEditingVagueHardest ThingIdentification Author:M. H. Abrams