Editing Quotes - Page 10

• I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.

  Woody Allen

  Want, Film, Release

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Honesty, Space, Painting

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• Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, Long

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.

  Donald A. Norman

  Thinking, Games, Drawing

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, p. 185, 1988.

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• 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.

  Scott Glenn

  Color, Purple, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.

  Steven Spielberg

  Jobs, Dubbing, Imposition

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Years, Judging, Looks

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Movie, Writing, Discovery

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• The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

  Nick Kroll

  Together, Pieces, Way

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• The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

  Alex Kapranos

  Creative, Songwriting, Bits

  "Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand". Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• 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.

  Walter Murch

  Cutting, Avid, Years

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• Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.

  Tamora Pierce

  Book, Thinking, People

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• A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

  Alan Parker

  Solitude, Directors, Film

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• 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.

  Nikki Reed

  Movie, Moving, Opportunity

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• 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.

  Brit Marling

  Kitchen, Meals, Rooms

  "Brit Marling Talks 'The East,' 'Sound of My Voice' and Delivering on the Hype". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. May 2, 2012.

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• It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

  Christian Marclay

  Long, Sitting, Get Away

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• The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

  Christian Marclay

  Together, Pieces, Process

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• I was the Playmate editor for Playboy for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.

  Holly Madison

  Girl, Years, Editors

  "Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Jobs, Book

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• Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

  Gail Sheehy

  Letting Go, Creativity, Illumination

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• With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

  David Hockney

  Photography, War, Two

  "'Photography is Crumbling'". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2004.

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• There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Writing, Simplicity, Artifice

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, Aeterna Press

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• Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Editors, Faults

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Moving, Writing, Play

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• I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Skills, Years

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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