List Of 214+ Editing Quotes

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.

This Applies To Many Film Jobs, Not Just Editing: Half The Job Is Doing The Job, And The Other Half Is Finding Ways To Get Along With People And Tuning Yourself In To The Delicacy Of The Situation.

The Notion Of Directing A Film Is The Invention Of Critics - The Whole Eloquence Of Cinema Is Achieved In The Editing Room.

A Writer Is Unfair To Himself When He Is Unable To Be Hard On Himself.

Editing Is Just Ongoing. I Don't Count Drafts, Or Know What Would Fully Constitute A Draft. But I Try To Fix As I Go. And There's Always More To Fix.

In A Way, Editing Is Not Unlike The Movies. The Best Books, Just Like The Best Movies, Are A Collaboration. They're Only As Good As The Compromise Made Between The Artists Involved.

People Will Like To Say That 'eastern Promises' Is Brutal, But The Only Reason They Say That Is Because The Scenes Stick With Them. They Are Realistic. They Are In-your-face And You See The Consequences. It's Not A Bunch Of Quick Editing Cuts.

Writing Is Probably One-fifth Coming Up With The Stuff, And Four-fifths Self-editing Again And Again And Again.

The Best Moments Can't Be Preconceived. I've Spent A Lot Of Time In Editing Rooms, And A Scene Can Be Technically Perfect, With Perfect Delivery And Facial Expression And Timing, And You Remember All Your Lines, And It Is Dead.

Forcing Modern Speakers Of English To Not - Whoops, Not To Split An Infinitive Because It Isn't Done In Latin Makes About As Much Sense As Forcing Modern Residents Of England To Wear Laurels And Togas.

Modern Biblical Scholars Have Established That The Bible Is A Wiki. It Was Compiled Over Half A Millennium From Writers With Different Styles, Dialects, Character Names, And Conceptions Of God And Was Subjected To Haphazard Editing That Left It With Many Contradictions, Duplications And Non-sequiturs.

Once You Start To Realize That A Film Is The Sum Of Its Editing, Then Editing Is The Thing You're Always Looking At.