Editing Quotes - Page 4

• In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

  Gerald Brommer

  Moving, Add, Use

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• I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Lasts, Process

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

  Anna Sui

  Book, Creating, Collections

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• The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Self, Doubt

  "Foer play" by Clark Collis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Editors, Guy, Rooms

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

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• Caesar is not above the grammarians.

  Tiberius

  Writing

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• Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

  Blake Morrison

  Writing, Knives, Use

  "Black day for the blue pencil". www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.

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• Bad spellers of the world untie!

  Adam Savage

  Writing, World

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• No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Writing, Entertainment

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• Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Writing, Three, Four

  'Satire (2). A M. Moliére'

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• Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Witty, Powerful, Stupid

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• If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.

  Michael Arndt

  Lonely, Real, Writing

  "Toy Story 3′ screenwriter talks toys with the Daily". Interview with Lorrayne Shen, tuftsdaily.com. November 4, 2010.

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• I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

  Adam Yauch

  Strong, Cameras, Suits

  "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

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• Save the gerund and screw the whale.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Whales, Screws

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Real Thing”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

  ZZ Packer

  Cutting, Issues, Stories

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• We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

  Charles de Lint

  Jobs, Cutting, Circles

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• 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.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Real, Artist, Skills

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• (R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.

  Terry Teachout

  Attention, Half, Tvs

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• Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting

  Satyajit Ray

  Cutting, Finals, Film

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

  Zadie Smith

  Simple, Secret, Needs

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• I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

  Drew Barrymore

  Cameras, Trickery

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• 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.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Editors, Sick

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• The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.

  Steven Spielberg

  Cutting, Editors, Necks

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• Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

  Walter Murch

  Art, Persistence, Simple

  Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com. November 1, 2001.

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