Editing Love Quotes

#1. The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.

George Carlin

#2. There's nothing sexier than imaging myself as an Oxford comma getting unambiguously banged. Throw in a semicolon in between two closely related independent clauses, and a volcanic love of punctuation eruption is guaranteed.

Ella Dominguez

#3. And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

James Joyce

#4. I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even at that point. It's not really until you're locked that you can call it quits.

Noah Hawley

#5. By the anointing of the Holy Spirit, anybody who is afflicted by any phobia can be set free.

Pedro Okoro

#6. I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

Stanley Kubrick

#7. Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#8. I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

Steven Spielberg

#9. I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

Hart Bochner

#10. Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills.

Robert Radcliffe

#11. The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

Sue Naegle

#12. Writing is a piece of cake. Editing is a slab of liver.

Evels

#13. I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

Barry Hannah

#14. How are you holding up?' Stephen had asked in the parking lot, and it had come as a relief. Because even if you don't know the answer, Nora thinks, leaving the foyer, it is nice to be asked.

Maya Lang

#15. I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

Justin Lin

#16. I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.

Nicole Eggert

#17. Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

Sholom Aleichem

#18. Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.

Vicki Brown

#19. I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

Martin Scorsese

#20. Love how editing makes you more confident with your book ...but also makes you want to set it on fire at the same time.

Kira Hawke

#21. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

Lily King

#22. Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Carlos Slim

#23. Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures.

Mary E. DeMuth

#24. The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.

Steven Spielberg

#25. We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.

Brene Brown

#26. I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

Mike Nichols

#27. I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

Will Smith

#28. I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

Werner Herzog

#29. I love producing my kids and my wife's TV show. I love doing that. I think that's my most natural space in the business. I would say the most natural space for me is producing or editing. That's just where I thrive.

Willi Smith

#30. I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.

Mickalene Thomas

#31. I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.

Neil Gaiman

#32. Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.

Midnight Taylor

#33. Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#34. Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

Stephanie Roberts

#35. I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.

Antoniette Costa

#36. My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.

Moby

#37. Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me.

Linda Conrad