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
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Marilyn Hacker 
Ken Burns 
Oliver Stone 
Terry Gilliam 
Walter Murch 
Julie Taymor 
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Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.
Charlie Hunter 
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I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
Marilyn Hacker
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The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
Edward Dmytryk
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There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
David Antin
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All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
Martin Short
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I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.
Sarah Vowell
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
Harold Ross
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Maya LinFrancis Ford CoppolaKen BurnsGeorge WaldAaron EckhartSalma HayekDavid AntinKevin J. AndersonColin GreenwoodMarilyn HackerOliver StoneRidley ScottLynn AbbeyPaul ReiserBen Shahn
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