Editors Quotes - Page 27

• It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.

  William Mapother

  Boys, Feet, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

  Steve Martin

  Beautiful, Writing, Editing

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• I was just reviewed by Robert Gottlieb, who was my editor at 'The New Yorker,' and he sort of wondered at the fact that I still need to exorcise my parents at my age. I think he makes a basic mistake in thinking that exorcism can ever be total. The exorcism of your parents will still be occurring on your own deathbed.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Mistake, Thinking, Parent

  "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com. May 30, 2005.

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• You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Pieces, Digital, Used

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.

  Toni Jerrman

  Needs, Opinion, Persons

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it.

  Mark Waid

  Running, Book, Long

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• When coming up with Wonder Woman cover designs, sometimes people will pitch ideas to me, either the writer or the editor. And it's interesting, because I know they're not trying to, but they end up pitching things that end up feeling like damsel-in-distress covers, where the tension comes from her needing to be rescued somehow. And it's something I immediately push back against.

  Cliff Chiang

  Book, Ideas, Interesting

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• Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.

  Michael Wilbon

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". www.washingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know, but I think I'm quite good at saying, "That's no good. That's no good. That's it. That's it. That's good." And I'm with the editor who goes, "No, I think you're wrong. That's not your best." There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Editing, Ouch, Neurosis

  "Ralph Fiennes Talks THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, Acting and Directing, Editing His Performance, and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 23, 2013.

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• An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Reader

  "The Writing Life: An Interview with Karen Thompson Walker". Hazel & Wren Interview, www.hazelandwren.com. July 24, 2012.

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• An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

  Sam Rockwell

  Magic, Painter

  "Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell". Interview with Andy Greenwald, grantland.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.

  David Sedaris

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, People, Half

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

  Bill Kovach

  Arguing, Desks, Credibility

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• Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet's best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace of its own.

  X. J. Kennedy

  Fashion, Mistake, Writing

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• A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.

  Edmund Wilson

  Country, Giving Up, Hands

  Edmund Wilson (1952). “The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties”

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• I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling. I was fortunate enough to have the wonderful designers and amazing photographers around me, and editors that I knew, and if I wanted to ask a question, I asked them. So that gap has broadened a bit.

  Naomi Campbell

  Talking, Different, Gaps

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Giving, Flavor, Likes

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• When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

  Michael D. Higgins

  People, Newspapers, Priests

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• I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.

  Frank Deford

  Writing, Differences, Boss

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a vocabulary thing or a right-to-left thing or script supervisor stuff. It's a way of thinking about the film and the shots and the way they fit together, what you need and what you don't need, and what you can get away with if you have to.

  Joe Dante

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Together

  "INTERVIEW: What You Can Get Away With: The Collegial Cutting Room Collaborators of Joe Dante, Part 2". Interview with Peter Tonguette, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2012.

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• I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.

  Stockard Channing

  Thinking, Play, Effort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

  Steven Price

  Kind

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• Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

  Chris DiBona

  Calling, Earth, Dirt

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• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  Indira Varma

  Directors, Good Directors, Depends

  "Indira Varma Interview HUMAN TARGET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 25, 2010.

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