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Image of Glenn McQuaid
The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.
- Glenn McQuaid
Collection: Editing
Image of Daniel Stamm
If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.
- Daniel Stamm
Collection: Editing
Image of Jørgen Leth
I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of game for chance.
- Jørgen Leth
Collection: Editing
Image of Barry Levinson
As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
- Barry Levinson
Collection: Editing
Image of Rem Koolhaas
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.
- Rem Koolhaas
Collection: Editing
Image of Thomas Tull
When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like that's the movie that I want to see.
- Thomas Tull
Collection: Editing
Image of Sam Mendes
I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting than shooting action. Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
- Sam Mendes
Collection: Editing
Image of Antoniette Costa
I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.
- Antoniette Costa
Collection: Editing
Image of Jeff Britting
Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.
- Jeff Britting
Collection: Editing
Image of Oliver Harris
I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.
- Oliver Harris
Collection: Editing
Image of Yuriy Tarnawsky
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre.
- Yuriy Tarnawsky
Collection: Editing
Image of Danielle Dutton
It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.
- Danielle Dutton
Collection: Editing
Image of Peter van Agtmael
I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things up on the board, showing them to trusted confidantes from in and outside the photo world. It started to take its shape naturally over time until I kind of ran out of ideas.
- Peter van Agtmael
Collection: Editing
Image of Ruth E. Carter
You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity and realism. The collaboration that you have had with all of these people plays an integral role in its final stage where editing and music are combine to enhance your work. This whole process is very rewarding and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
- Ruth E. Carter
Collection: Editing
Image of Sue Tompkins
When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.
- Sue Tompkins
Collection: Editing
Image of Sue Tompkins
The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they usually have some relation of how physical that stack becomes. When I'm editing it together, the density of the papers is an indicator to be like, "You need to stop."
- Sue Tompkins
Collection: Editing
Image of Bonnie Raitt
I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.
- Bonnie Raitt
Collection: Editing
Image of Orson Welles
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
- Orson Welles
Collection: Editing
Image of Robert Greene
Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.
- Robert Greene
Collection: Editing
Image of Patrick Wilson
You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day.
- Patrick Wilson
Collection: Editing
Image of Sheila Heti
In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.
- Sheila Heti
Collection: Editing
Image of Mort Sahl
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.
- Mort Sahl
Collection: Editing
Image of Steven Soderbergh
My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.
- Steven Soderbergh
Collection: Editing
Image of Lorrie Moore
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.
- Lorrie Moore
Collection: Editing
Image of Martin Scorsese
And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of 'The Aviator' it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously.
- Martin Scorsese
Collection: Editing
Image of Andrei Tarkovsky
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
- Andrei Tarkovsky
Collection: Editing
Image of Bjork
What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it's good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
- Bjork
Collection: Editing
Image of Denzel Washington
You start to find a rhythm and usually if it makes me laugh or comment in the editing room then I knew that's what's going to happen in the audience. That first reaction is usually the right reaction.
- Denzel Washington
Collection: Editing
Image of Robert Bresson
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
Collection: Editing
Image of Joseph Addison
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
- Joseph Addison
Collection: Editing
Image of Dennis Ritchie
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9
- Dennis Ritchie
Collection: Editing
Image of Albert Brooks
What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.
- Albert Brooks
Collection: Editing
Image of Paul Reiser
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on
- Paul Reiser
Collection: Editing
Image of John Waters
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
Collection: Editing
Image of Jason Reitman
I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.
- Jason Reitman
Collection: Editing
Image of Jason Reitman
I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.
- Jason Reitman
Collection: Editing
Image of Isabel Allende
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
- Isabel Allende
Collection: Editing
Image of Jeremy Clarkson
Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.
- Jeremy Clarkson
Collection: Editing
Image of Woody Allen
The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in Husbands and Wives - is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, nervous New York film, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.
- Woody Allen
Collection: Editing
Image of Warren E. Burger
For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.
- Warren E. Burger
Collection: Editing
Image of Woody Allen
I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.
- Woody Allen
Collection: Editing
Image of Woody Allen
I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.
- Woody Allen
Collection: Editing
Image of Julie Delpy
The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.
- Julie Delpy
Collection: Editing
Image of Lydia Davis
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
Collection: Editing
Image of Don DeLillo
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
- Don DeLillo
Collection: Editing
Image of Joe Dante
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
Collection: Editing
Image of Austin Kleon
The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.
- Austin Kleon
Collection: Editing
Image of Sarah Dessen
Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.
- Sarah Dessen
Collection: Editing
Image of Cameron Diaz
Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.
- Cameron Diaz
Collection: Editing