Top Editing Quotes
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
Francis Ford Coppola
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
R. A. Salvatore
David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.
Bob Odenkirk
Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.
Satyajit Ray
What I don't have in theater is editing.
Julie Taymor
Walter Murch 
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William Safire 
Sarah Vowell 
Maya Lin 
Aaron Eckhart 
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My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
Maya Lin 
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Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.
Pete Waterman
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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.
Walter Murch
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I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
Ben Shahn
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You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
Dennis Farina
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
Campbell Scott
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I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
Kevin J. Anderson
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Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.
Dennis Ritchie
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.
Miguel de Icaza
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Popular Editing Authors
Maya LinFrancis Ford CoppolaKen BurnsGeorge WaldAaron EckhartSalma HayekDavid AntinKevin J. AndersonColin GreenwoodMarilyn HackerOliver StoneRidley ScottLynn AbbeyPaul ReiserBen Shahn
Dennis FarinaSarah VowellMiguel de IcazaSatyajit RayMartin ShortTerry GilliamStephen HopkinsJulie TaymorCharlie HunterDennis RitchieCampbell ScottPete WatermanR. A. SalvatoreGeorge WoodcockRichard Dean Anderson
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