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Image of Howard Shore
To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.
- Howard Shore
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Image of Christopher Kenneally
The image isn't just created with the camera. That's just part one. The editor gets an imprint. The colorist does something to it. Visual effects does something to it. It's not just what you capture that people are going to see. The image gets made in many ways. In production and then in post.
- Christopher Kenneally
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Image of Rosalie Maggio
Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people want it to go, and, like a balky mule, you can't make it go where it doesn't want to go.
- Rosalie Maggio
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Image of Chris DiBona
Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.
- Chris DiBona
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Image of Robert Polidori
I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.
- Robert Polidori
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Image of Steven Price
In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.
- Steven Price
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Image of Indira Varma
I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.
- Indira Varma
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Image of Jay Cassidy
Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.
- Jay Cassidy
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Image of Cris Mazza
Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.
- Cris Mazza
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Image of Hershel Shanks
As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.
- Hershel Shanks
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Image of Toni Jerrman
One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.
- Toni Jerrman
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Image of David Robert Mitchell
It's just about having faith in what I wrote and following through on the plan and making sure I get the pieces the way that I need them. It's just about executing properly in production and then in post, you know, it's working [with] and trusting my editor, and then also playing the film for people and seeing how they react.
- David Robert Mitchell
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Image of William Gurstelle
I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.
- William Gurstelle
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Image of Mark Twain
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Justin Bieber
Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we’re good at, we never learn anything new.
- Justin Bieber
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Image of Theodore Sturgeon
I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.
- Theodore Sturgeon
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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Image of David Mitchell
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
- David Mitchell
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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Image of Mark Twain
That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Bill Watterson
My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.
- Bill Watterson
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Image of Toni Morrison
Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.
- Toni Morrison
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Image of Robin Hobb
When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
- Robin Hobb
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Image of Kelly Link
The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.
- Kelly Link
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Image of Mark Twain
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Bob Woodward
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
- Bob Woodward
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Image of Voltaire
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.
- Voltaire
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Image of Flannery O'Connor
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
- Flannery O'Connor
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Image of Howard Rheingold
Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.
- Howard Rheingold
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Image of Bill Nye
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
- Bill Nye
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Image of Michael Pollan
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.
- Michael Pollan
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Image of Israel Zangwill
Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.
- Israel Zangwill
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Image of Constantin Stanislavski
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
- Constantin Stanislavski
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Image of Robert Anton Wilson
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
- Robert Anton Wilson
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Image of Norman Rockwell
I used to sit in the studio with a copy of the (Saturday Evening) Post laid across my knees ... And then I'd conjure up a picture of myself as a famous illustrator and gloat over it, putting myself in various happy situations, surrounded by admiring females, deferred to by office flunkies at the magazines, wined and dined by the editor.
- Norman Rockwell
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Image of Kurt Vonnegut
You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Image of Bill O'Reilly
The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.
- Bill O'Reilly
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Image of Ava DuVernay
A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.
- Ava DuVernay
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Image of Thomas Carlyle
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
- Thomas Carlyle
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Image of Jennifer Beals
I don't usually see what I've done. I don't often watch the film or watch the show. It's really about that experience on-set and within the scene. Because later, when the film comes out or the show comes out it's the editor's realm or the director's realm. But that moment on set, that's that electricity between me and another actor, and that's really what excites me.
- Jennifer Beals
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Image of William Zinsser
Editors are licensed to be curious.
- William Zinsser
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Image of Louis C. K.
Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.
- Louis C. K.
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Image of Annie Dillard
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go. (If you get it wrong, any least thing, the editor will throw your manuscript out.) Punctuation is not like musical notation; it doesn't indicate the length of pauses, but instead signifies logical relations. There are all sorts of people out there who know these things very well. You have to be among them even to begin.
- Annie Dillard
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Image of Nat Hentoff
[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
- Nat Hentoff
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Image of Nat Hentoff
Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff. This was the first wave of political correctness. The editors of the staff members came and said he must - he must, from now on, stop using `freshmen' and - in-as part of the policy of the paper. It had to be `freshperson.' Therefore, you don't - you're not discriminating against males or females. They were very fervent about that, and he was equally fervent about not politicizing language. So until he left, `freshmen' stayed.
- Nat Hentoff
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Image of Jean Cocteau
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
- Jean Cocteau
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Image of Philip K. Dick
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
- Philip K. Dick
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Image of Phil Crosby
When in doubt, delete it.
- Phil Crosby
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