Editing Quotes - Page 17

• I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a particular intention, but I think if there is an integrity to the work and the material you are working with, the work comes from the nature of that material.

  Jay Cassidy

  Integrity, Thinking, Style

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.

  Walter Mosley

  Morning, Book, Writing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, School, Yearbook

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• The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Way, Edits

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.

  Woody Allen

  Way, Film, Scene

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• 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.

  Jerusha Hess

  Rooms, Spirit, Comedy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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."

  Storm Saulter

  Character, Two, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Thom Powers

  Taken, Years, Rushing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• With comedy, you get an immediate response. I'm the whole kit and the kaboodle. I am the whole thing and can steer the whole situation how I want to. With film, you are basically in one area. Comedy is straight to it and the film is heavily shaped the camera and editing, so it's different.

  Joe Torry

  Cameras, Different, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Because the Pang brothers are twins, they would rotate days on set. One of them would be editing, and one of them would be shooting.

  Kristen Stewart

  Brother, Would Be, Shooting

  Interview with Jon Favreau, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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• There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Unique, Editors, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a great moment for a voiceover, or a poem," and then we'd bring in some sound design.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Design, Sound

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're inspired by. But when you finally edit the movie, the movie is just a movie, so there is always a hint of disappointment, particularly when you see your first cut.

  Daniel Espinosa

  Disappointment, Cutting, Faces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Creative Collaboration, Design, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

  Janusz Kaminski

  People, Action, Film

  Source: screenrant.com

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• If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.

  Daniel Stamm

  Twenties, Four, Hours

  Source: screenrant.com

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• To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.

  Shirin Neshat

  Artist, Editors, Can Do

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance.

  Shirin Neshat

  Strong, Distance, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at editing. He would take my far-out ideas and tame them and make sense of them.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, School, Editors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That was an amazing experience [making Dream of Life]. It's hard to imagine that we were editing every day for a year. And it was pretty extraordinary; it also went by super fast. But every day was an experiment.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Years, Imagine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and all the rest of the Shadows cast came out to California and they finished it off and he cut it. He turned the garage into an editing room and he was by then a director of Shadows. That's the only thing he'd directed. But, he loved it.

  Gena Rowlands

  Cutting, California, Shadow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy.

  Jon Turteltaub

  Stupid, Laughing, Ongoing

  Source: collider.com

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• It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Book, Reading, People

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• You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day.

  Patrick Wilson

  Shooting, Rooms, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

  Doug Liman

  Trying, Looks, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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