A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.
You can't revise a blank page.
What I don't have in theater is editing.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one.
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.
Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you don't yet know where the stems of the flowers are.
You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
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.
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.
Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.
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.
I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face... that fascinates me.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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