“When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.” IfsKnowsFeelsKindCan DoCuttingProductsLike YouFinalsLimitation Author:Rachael Taylor
“1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.” MeanCareSoundSimpleCuttingSubjectsLike YouReaderPityGutsLike YourselfKeep It Simple Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.” ThinkingHumansLooksIdeasPlayCan DoHuman BeingsCuttingLike YouDoctorsSurgeryYou Can Do It Author:Carrie-Anne Moss
“I've got girlfriends who call me 'Raye' or 'L. Raye', but when somebody calls me 'Lisa', it's like, 'You've got two more times to say that and then I think you're disrespecting me and I'm going to have to cut you!'” ThinkingTwoCuttingLike YouGirlfriendCall MeMore Time Author:LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
“I think you're sort of always waiting, wondering when the word "cut" is going to be said when you're doing a scene. Like you're there and you're doing the scene and you're always sort of like, ‘Okay. Are they going to call cut? How far are we taking this? Are they going to call cut?’” ThinkingSaidWaitingWonderCuttingLike YouColdSceneAlways Waiting Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me, "How would you like your eggs?" I thought I would answer her anyway and said, "Incubated! And then raised, plucked, beheaded, cut up, put onto a grill, and then put onto a bun. Damn! I don't have that much time! Scrambled!"” ThinkingSaidHumorFunnyAnswersCuttingLike YouUnderstoodRaisedDamnRestaurantsEggsChickensSandwichesWaitressBuns Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, watermelon rind, the top of a baby's head, boiling water, and fresh cut grass all mixed together.” FeelingsTogetherJoyAsksGivenWaterCuttingLike YouBabyAnd LoveMeetingsSmellGrassExcitementWarmthSlothLaundryBoilingBoiling WaterWarmth And Love Author:Ann Burton
“I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSeemsCan DoKnow HowEnvironmentCuttingCarLike YouOur EnvironmentHeadphones Author:Jeff Tweedy
“If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.” PeopleIfsTalkingAudienceCuttingLike YouWeightFighterSkinnyI Like You Author:Jonathan Tucker
“It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your finger on it - the movie's not working or it seems slow or ponderous in some way, and even though it has your favorite scene in there, actually the favorite scene is the culprit. That's the painful thing about editing, is trying to locate those things that are holding the movie back and then having the guts to cut them. And it is painful to do it.” WayTryingReasonSeemsMightCuttingLike YouSceneFingersPainfulGutsEditingYour FavoriteCulpritPainful Things Author:Neil Burger
“That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."” KnowsWayDoeImportantMomentsCharacterStoriesFeelingsHappensActionStrongStuffLinesActingCuttingLike YouElementsPicksSurpriseReactionsLive LifeStrongestWhat's ImportantSkiingStuff Happens Author:Mira Sorvino
“You really feel like you're on the cutting edge and you know you are because all the camera equipment you take for granted doesn't exist for 3-D. So all the cranes with all the stabilized heads, they don't work on 3-D because they're all built for lightweight camera packages. As soon as you kind of put two cameras together and all the other crap that they need and the cabling to go back to the computers, we've literally, the cranes on these movies, they break after a couple of days.” KnowsNeedsFeelsKindTwoTogetherBreakCuttingLike YouCoupleComputerBuiltCamerasEdgesGrantedCrapEquipmentPackagesCutting EdgeCranes Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I think things like YouTube and Twitter are really cool and really good in some ways, but the fact that the news is cutting to a YouTube clip on national TV, I think is really weird.” ThinkingWayFactsCuttingTvsLike YouNewsYoutubeReally CoolClipReally Weird Author:Andrew VanWyngarden
“I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And so it's been nice to go through the experience of having a lot wind up on the cutting-room floor, and yet still feel that your voice is being - not purified, but made more yourself. I think that's a very rare thing.” ThinkingFeelsMadeStillsVoiceRoomsNiceCuttingWindLike YouEditedRare Things Author:Sarah Stillman
“I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.” PeopleIfsMenLooksFallFightingFiveCuttingHe ManLike YouRoundsNervousSpotsPredictionsGamble Author:Muhammad Ali