Edits Quotes - Page 12

• When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Writing, Garbage, Force

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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• There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed the limits to places where people might be put off. But that's truly part of developing as an artist.

  Dane Cook

  Artist, Careers, Self

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• When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

  Agnes Varda

  Squares, Use, Dry

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.

  Keith Rabois

  Team, Important, Important Things

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• Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.

  James Arthur

  Writing, Mind, Signatures

  Source: www.32poems.com

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• If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Self, Doing You

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

  Lydia Davis

  Editing, Editors, Levels

  "Live Chat with Lydia Davis". www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

  DJ Spooky

  Imagination, Technique, Digital

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

  Joe Dante

  Editing, Giving, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The only advice I can give those who want to sell thei films is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism but you listen to it and edit it and you figure out what you can take.

  Dee Rees

  Believe, Mean, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit and edit, I never think, "That's me." I think, "This is a character, and how do I edit this to tell a story?"

  Laurel Nakadate

  Character, Thinking, Video

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• There are certain scenes in the edit you're playing with it and certain scenes don't put back together the way you imagined. Sometimes they're better and sometimes they don't have that thing, so it's never foolproof. But you certainly get an idea that here we've got enough and we've got to move on because you're always against time and money there. Whatever the budget is, you have to get practical about it.

  Oliver Parker

  Moving, Ideas, Together

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 5, 2017.

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• We usually start by asking the collaborators to submit a couple of ideas. Then, Larry and I will sort through all the submissions and choose the ones based on what we think will add most to the collection. Once the scripts are written, the stages are: rehearse, record, edit, sound design, foley and finally, the mix.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Couple, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Running, Doe, Different

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• The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Writing, Sublime, Lessons

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• I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.

  Topher Grace

  Writing, Editors, Directors

  "Topher Grace’s ‘Star Wars’ Edits Explained: Actor Discusses Editing Three Prequels Into One Film". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, People, Narrative

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• Sometimes the guys who run the visual effects shop will bury it in and not tell us. We'll be in the middle of the edit, watching it for the fifth or sixth time, and we'll be like, "What's that big W on that building? I don't think we can do that. We haven't asked DC." And then, they take it out.

  Greg Berlanti

  Running, Thinking, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't want to get too far ahead of the audience and you don't want the audience to be ahead of you. So, that balance is difficult and it takes a lot of work and tuning in the edit, to get the right balance.

  David Ayer

  Balance, Tuning, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

  Allan Gurganus

  Fall, Writing, Shapes

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• There were radio shows where you actually got to hear people play off of each other and get that immediate magic that goes on. And rather than doing what a lot of shows do, where an individual comes in, reads their part, and you edit it together later on and try to build a performance, we're lucky because this is really very much a theatrical performance that is going on, every single week.

  Jeph Loeb

  Play, People, Magic

  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

  Editing, Trying, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly.

  Greg Behrendt

  People, Want, Warts

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• I understand Windows as well as most technical-support personnel. I can edit a config.sys file and delete bad lines in an autoexec.bat with the best of them. I can partition a hard drive in FAT32
  But why would I want to?

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Support, Bats, Lines

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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, Editing, Way

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

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