Editing Quotes - Page 8

• I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.

  Haile Gerima

  Matter, Documentary Films, Rooms

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.

  Judd Apatow

  Character, Thinking, Important

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

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• When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed, you feel more comfortable delivering a performance. Because you know the real performance is put together in the editing room.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Real, Editors, Ideas

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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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• 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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• A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

  Robert Bresson

  Actors, Pieces, Paper

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• Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort.

  Orson Welles

  Confused, Effort, Fruit

  "This is Orson Welles". Book by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, 1992.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Democracy, Directors

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

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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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• Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, "Let's let the next villain be Dr. Doom" ... or I may not even say that. He may tell me. And then he goes home and does it. He's so good at plots, I'm sure he's a thousand times better than I. He just makes up the plots for these stories. All I do is a little editing ... I may tell him that he's gone too far in one direction or another. Of course, occasionally I'll give him a plot, but we're practically both the writers on the things.

  Stan Lee

  Home, Mean, Artist

  Stan Lee, Jeff McLaughlin (2007). “Stan Lee: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Self, Kind, Consciousness

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Team, Writing, Decision

  Interview with Bridget Foley, www.wmagazine.com. March 1, 2007.

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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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