Editing Quotes - Page 7

• I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

  Will Smith

  Love, Thinking, Space

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• Good things, when short, are twice as good.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Good Things, Brevity

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• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Long, Giving

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

  H. G. Wells

  Passion, Writing, Editors

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• There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Writing, Eight

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Writing

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• You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

  will.i.am

  Technology, Cds, Cameras

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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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• 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 try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have.

  Judd Apatow

  Clear Head, Trying, Rooms

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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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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• It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

  John Waters

  Years, Leather Jackets, House

  "John Waters Takes It All". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2014.

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• [My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.

  Jenna Bush

  Mom, Book, School

  "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008.

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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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• A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.

  Craig Newmark

  Writing, People, Citizens

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