“I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.” WellsFilmStuffEnjoyCuttingCoupleFitSceneConsolationDvds Author:Jay Roach
“Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.” MadeTwoSometimesWholeCuttingExampleSceneConsciousFinalsVersionsMade ItTowersSequenceEditedTwo Towers Author:Brian Sibley
“Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.” WayTryingKindStoriesGoalEmotionClearComedyCuttingAchieveFiguresDramaScene Author:Luke Wilson
“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.” FeelsShouldTwoCharacterStoriesMovingMy OwnNovelCuttingCrazyInformationEmotionalHugeAmountSceneIncludingDetailsAttachmentFadesChaptersManuscriptsLess Is MoreSmall Details Author:Sarah Waters
“In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.” MenMadeDoneGovernmentLastsValuesGoalResultsBeautyEnvironmentCuttingGrowingProgressFieldsHealthySceneActivityTaxesWasteBenefitsRaisesPropertyRateDecadesSensesSignificantPrimeCategoriesPollutionEfficiencyPlagueRapidsMenacePollution Control Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.” YearsHas BeensPlayDreamFilmSexCuttingSceneShapesHollywoodWork OutSomedayStaying Author:William H. Macy
“It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know."” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingLooksI CanImportantIdeasSometimesFeelingsMightGivenCuttingSceneDirectorsInstinctGood Ideas Author:Ralph Fiennes
“If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.” PeopleIfsFeelsMomentsHelpingFilmRoomsCuttingSceneShotsWideDisturbingDistressing Author:Alex Karpovsky
“I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsGivingBelieveWellsMightTodayKnow HowCuttingStyleSceneDon't BelieveDefinitionsNarrativeEditorsTruckDump Author:Gordon Willis
“My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.” IfsSometimesStoriesFilmCertainHoursRoomsHalfWiseCuttingSceneImpactStuckRemoveEditorsSectionsHalf HoursSlowing Author:Alexander Payne
“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.” MadeFunnyCuttingMissingSceneHumorousDiscoveryFemalePraiseGuiltyFraudPassagesPiousCelibacyRosa Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces
“Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.” IfsWayNeedsCharacterMightActionSidesRoomsCuttingParticularSceneSilentManipulateWrong ThingsPhysical Things Author:Gus Van Sant
“As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.” IdeasSometimesStoriesMovingRealizingCuttingProgressSceneDirectorsMoving ForwardTension Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“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
“All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.” IfsKnowsWayLongWholeThreeHoursLinesFiveCuttingMinutesSceneJokesShotsVersionsGet BackSecondsTestingGoing To WorkFive MinutesBiggest FearFunny JokesPreview Author:Judd Apatow
“I like to shoot scenes where I can see the beginning, middle and end of the entire scene. But, when you edit a movie together, you can just cut right into the middle. You don't need to see them walk into the room and put their jacket on the chair. There's always a lot of shoe leather that you can remove.” NeedsI CanEndsTogetherWalksRoomsCuttingMiddleSceneShoesChairsRemoveJacketsLeatherEditsBeginning Middle And End Author:Judd Apatow
“If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.” IfsWantFilmCuttingSceneShotsOriginalsRemakes Author:Michael Haneke
“I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.” MadeI CanStuffEnjoyFourCuttingImagineBrotherScenePagesHappeningsBallsGreenScreensTeethDialogueTennisGasTwinsAdaptationBecause I CanTennis BallsTwin Brother Author:Nicolas Cage
“I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.” DifferentRememberForgetRoomsSawsCuttingProductsSceneFinalsVersionsSnicketOften Can Author:Daniel Handler
“In Korea is what I do is I watch the playback of each take with all of the actors and spend a lot of time discussing each take. Also, I use the process we call auto-assembly because I storyboard my entire film right at the beginning, even before pre-production ever begins, so my vision is already laid out on the storyboard for everybody to share. It enables the on-set assembly person, as we call them, to cut together each take into a sequence. This enables a director to review the take within the context of the sequence of the scene.” PersonsUseTogetherFilmActorsProcessVisionWatchesCuttingShareSceneDirectorsProductionsReviewsSequenceKoreaAssemblyDiscussing Author:Park Chan-wook
“It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.” LongBeautifulCuttingMinutesSceneExcitedRobinsReally Beautiful Author:Jason Isaacs
“As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.” WayPersonsDoeHandsEyeActorsLinesWalksRoomsHalfStepsRolesCuttingSceneMouths Author:Stanley Tucci
“I was writing with different people in Nashville - whoever I could. Eddie Hinton came on the scene about 1963, and about four years later we wrote a ton of songs together. I drifted around, but Eddie and I had some cuts through the '60s and '70s. I went on the road with Kris Kristofferson in 1970.” PeopleWritingYearsDifferentTogetherSongFourCuttingSceneFour YearsDifferent PeoplesNashville Author:Donnie Fritts
“Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have directed the story earlier in the book. It happens, it's called adapting a book, you have to make decisions about things. It's not unusual having to cut out scenes.” BookEndsMomentsStoriesBigsHappensUniverseDecisionPiecesCuttingSceneFilmmakerUnusualCrackedAdapting Author:Daniel Craig
“For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always...once you've rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner.” FeelsEndsFilmBitsCuttingCoupleSceneShots Author:Brian Helgeland
“But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.” PeopleKnowsCountryActionTogetherFormGuyCuttingMissingSceneConsciousUnderstoodHollywoodHorseWesternMediumsCriticizeVehicleBad GuysGood GuyNuanceScenery Author:John Wayne
“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
“As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.” FirstsProblemCuttingWillingSceneDirectorsNo ProblemDarling Author:David Ayer
“With mockumentaries, the conceit is that the characters are being interviewed, so you can start a scene and cut to a character looking at the camera and saying, "I'm working on this project," instead of having to figure out ways for people to talk naturally about what they're doing. You see this problem in pilots - people end up explaining things to each other that they'd never explain in real life.” PeopleWayRealEndsCharacterProblemCuttingFiguresSceneProjectsCamerasReal LifePilotsExplainingConceitDoing YouExplaining Things Author:Michael Schur
“Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.” ThinkingWritingCuttingSceneScripts Author:David Twohy
“A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.” IfsThinkingKnowsWonderKnowingCuttingDisciplineSceneShotsFinalsFocused Author:Jeremy Bolt
“But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows.” I CanMomentsActionCertainCoursesActorsEmotionCuttingInspireScenePerformancesCamerasActiveBlockKneesSequenceNuanceElbowsBruises Author:Kim Jee-woon
“Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.” WayEnergyCuttingSceneFatsActivate Author:Greta Gerwig
“Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.” PeopleWellsTodayFilmYoungSpaceGoneCuttingAirMastersSceneComputerInstrumentsHistoricalEpicAstronautSympatheticDisconnectedStanleyOdysseyFrame Of ReferenceSpace Odyssey2001 A Space Odyssey Author:Camille Paglia
“That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.” DifferentWould BeWantedTogetherFeltVoiceEffortEmotionBoysCuttingHeardGoes OnSceneFinalsBe GoodDifferent EmotionsDido Author:A. R. Rahman
“Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.” CuttingSceneShooting Author:Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.
“It was really interesting to be editing the film [Trust] in New York and directing the play in Chicago, and one definitely informed the other. The play probably benefitted more because I realized what scenes could be cut, and I cut those scenes from the play.” PlayFilmInterestingCuttingNew YorkSceneI RealizedChicagoEditingReally Interesting Author:David Schwimmer
“I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there's never a moment where Django plays the piano.” PlayMomentsCuttingPlayerScenePianoMagnificentJamieWaltzDjangoDjango Unchained Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I don't believe in director's cuts and I also don't really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that's what the director made.” BelieveMadeCuttingSceneDirectorsTheaterDon't Believe Author:Neill Blomkamp
“John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him. We were in the middle of a scene and [Selma director] Ava DuVernay calls, "Cut," and then he literally just came in. He just came walking in.I just froze. I can't explain the feeling. Seeing somebody who was literally a living hero. He was a hero.” FirstsHumansI CanFeelingsBeautifulRememberHuman BeingsCuttingSeeingMiddleHeroWalkingMetsSceneDirectorsFirst TimeRemarkable Author:Stephan James
“I think that, you know, women succeed in the cutting room or they're allowed into the cutting room because it's not a very on-display job. I mean, we're behind the scenes. We kind of whisper in your ear.” ThinkingKnowsKindMeanJobsRoomsBehindsCuttingSceneSucceedEarsDisplayBehind The Scenes Author:Maryann Brandon
“I didn't shoot any guns then or when we did the scene with Uncle Charlie [Matthew Goode] and Evie [Nicole Kidman] in the hall. I sort of pressed the button but there were no blanks or anything in there because I think it was always going to cut.” ThinkingCuttingSceneGunHallsButtonsUnclesCharlieMatthewNicole Author:Mia Wasikowska
“In the given circumstances you must be rooted in the play. Do not depart from the play. Don't cut yourself off from your partner in the scene, or partners.” PlayGivenCuttingCircumstancesScenePartnersRooted Author:Constantin Stanislavski
“As a fighter, you have a weight cut, and if there's a weigh-in scene you want to look way smaller and depleted. You want there to be a noticeable difference between that and the fight day. You don't drink water, except for tiny sips, and you're not really eating anything, except for a tiny slice of sweet potato every hour.” IfsWayWantLooksFightingWaterHoursDifferencesCuttingSweetDrinkSceneEatingWeightTinyFighterPotatoesDrink WaterSweet Potatoes Author:Matt Lauria
“I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It was a great visit and I do a whole-behind-the-scenes thing and I tell stories about Bette [Mudler] and Barbara Hershey and everybody and that was fun. It made me cry again.” MadeDoneWholeStoriesFunBehindsCuttingCrySceneDirectorsReleaseBeachDvdsBehind The ScenesBarbaraNarrationHersheyMade Me Cry Author:Garry Marshall
“It's so sad to me [see the director's versions of films] because it shows how the filmmaker never got to make the film he had originally envisioned. You watch it and go, "Oh my god, he had to cut that scene! I can't believe it."” BelieveI CanShowsFilmWatchesCuttingSceneDirectorsVersionsFilmmakerSo Sad Author:Sonia Braga
“Of course, when you see [ musical numbers] in the movie [Out To Sea ], it's cut into a lot with other scenes, but we shot the number straight through, so here I am doing it, and sitting right in front of me in the audience was Donald O'Connor. And I was, like, "Oh, my God, I can't believe I'm performing a musical number in front of Donald O'Connor," who's one of the greats of the silver screen. But it was a thrilling experience, it really was.” BelieveI CanCoursesNumbersAudienceCuttingSeaFrontsSceneShotsSittingMusicalScreensPerformingSilverThrillingHere I Am Author:Brent Spiner
“Gareth [Edwards] was very much about including everyone in what we were making, so he would cut together different scenes to show us what we were making. And the crew, cast, everyone would go into a theater there at Pinewood Studios and watch 10 minutes of what we were making. It was always so exciting. It looked amazing, and the music was huge.” DifferentShowsTogetherWatchesCuttingMinutesHugeSceneExcitingTheaterIncludingCastsStudiosCrewIncluding Everyone Author:Alan Tudyk
“Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.” PeopleStoriesWould BeGirlLostLeftStarsPiecesCuttingMagicSceneSingingBoxesRelateDragonsLost LoveShowersMagician1960sIncidentsRelatablePsychoHitchcockUntouchablesCameos Author:Judd Apatow