“If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.” IfsWantI CanMovingActorsOpportunityProcessRoomsFieldsAreasVideoGoldenMovieFilmmakingTicketsEditing Author:Nikki Reed
“Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.” LittlesFilmBitsRoomsGoneTakenLittle BitFinishedShootingTouchedEditing Author:Ridley Scott
“I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.” FeelsKindRoomsMealsKitchenEditing Author:Brit Marling
“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 try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have.” TryingHoursRoomsClearHopefullyHelpfulMassiveEditingBlindedClear Head Author:Judd Apatow
“When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed, you feel more comfortable delivering a performance. Because you know the real performance is put together in the editing room.” KnowsFeelsIdeasRealTogetherFilmRoomsActingSceneComfortablePerformancesInstanceNo IdeaEditorsEditingDelivering Author:Dolph Lundgren
“A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.” FilmFormActorsBornRoomsPiecesPaperThirdsCamerasFinalsFinishedEditing Author:Robert Bresson
“There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.” HoursRoomsTenSpendingEditingSwearingCathartic Author:Liev Schreiber
“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.” IfsGivingLongI CanDifferentLeftBlackRoomsActingStageColorPaintingDirectorsRedGreenPaintMetaphorBrownEditingReally GreatPurpleActing In MoviesRed And Black Author:Scott Glenn
“Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.” ThinkingWantMadeIdeasUseFilmActorsProcessRoomsPossibilityMaterialsPerformancesNot SureEditingEditsRaw Materials Author:Ralph Fiennes
“I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.” IfsMatterFilmRoomsSubjectsBusyEditingDocumentariesFundingSubject MatterEditsTediousDocumentary Films Author:Haile Gerima
“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.” KnowsDifferentRealUseArtistAnswersRoomsKnowingExampleSkillsCamerasButtonsEditingLensesMicrophonesArtisansReal KnowledgeReal Artists Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“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.” IdeasUseProcessRoomsCuttingWindThousandAnxiousEditing Author:Steven Spielberg
“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.” KnowsActorsRoomsCuttingCastsScoreEditing Author:Albert Brooks
“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.” FirstsMeanRememberRoomsLessonsOne DayHollywoodEditing 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.” GuyProcessRoomsFascinatingEditorsEditing 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.” IfsWantWritingMeanEnoughFilmThreeRoomsActingMaterialsScriptsVersionsRhythmShootingEfficientFilmmakingEditingHarvestManipulateCoverage Author:Alexander Payne
“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.” IfsYearsFilmRoomsSixBudgetsMore MoneyEditingUnlimitedBillionaire Author:Albert Brooks
“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.” IfsWayGivingUsedCertainRoomsSceneDirectorsI RealizedHorribleSupposed To BeWorriedLockedJust BeingEditing Author:Katie Holmes
“Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.” IfsGivingPlayProblemFilmActorsSoundSidesRoomsPowerfulAudienceToo MuchHugeConversationGive MeAddEditingToolbox Author:Dave McKean
“The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on the editing room floor, so it gives you a lot more room to experiment I guess. But I really enjoy doing it. I'm very comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.” IfsGivingEndsFilmEnjoyRoomsComedyComfortableExperimentsGreat ThingsIdiotExposedEditingTappingPhysical Comedy Author:Isla Fisher
“Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.” IfsFilmRoomsVisionDirectorsScriptsFilmmakerEditing Author:Cameron Diaz
“Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.” GivingLittlesSometimesRoomsAirFrontsJokesGive MeCamerasGladEditingThin Air Author:Ed Helms
“There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.” IfsKindMadeIdeasUsedRoomsEasierCamerasUsed To BeMake SenseEditorsEditingMistakenDeliberateCheaper Author:Ethan Hawke
“The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.” WantKindMadeIdeasFilmCertainRoomsEditing Author:Ethan Hawke
“If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.” IfsWholeBigsSeemsFilmRealizingRoomsMillionsNovelCuttingMinutesDyingDisappearEpicEditingClimax Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place.” MindChoicesFallCoursesRoomsHappenedShotsWanderShootingPhenomenonMeant To BeEditing Author:Philip Morrison
“The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.” MadeTogetherFilmRoomsStoresShootingIngredientsCakeShoppingEditing Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“Editing was hard for me. It was hard to be in a room by yourself and not have that collaborative spirit. Comedies are really tight and timing is everything.” HardSpiritRoomsComedyTimingEditingTiming Is Everything Author:Jerusha Hess
“As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now I've gotten much more precise with my shooting. Editing is a whole other layer because then, sometimes you realize characters don't even need to say this or that. It becomes an issue of exposition, and over-explaining something. In the script, I'd reinforce certain things about what I wanted people to know two or three times, but in the editing room, I'd be like, "I only need to say this once, maybe twice."” PeopleKnowsNeedsTwoSometimesWholeCharacterWantedYoungCertainThreeStuffRealizingRoomsIssuesShotsScriptsShootingFilmmakerLayersEditingPreciseThree TimesExplaining Author:Storm Saulter
“For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.” YearsSometimesHardReasonSeemsFilmRoomsTakenProgressSeriousSevenScreensFilmmakerProgrammingEditingDocumentariesFestivalsSeven YearsEditsDeadlineRushingTorontoWork In ProgressPremieresSundance Author:Thom Powers
“Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.” MayHas BeensFoundPerfectRoomsShotsTricksVersionsEditing Author:Joe Dante
“I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs or someone else's, or shoot their own picture on video and cut it.” ThinkingWantShouldFilmRoomsCuttingDirectVideoEditing Author:Joe Dante