Quotes About Dailies

#1. I don't watch dailies. I don't pretend not to read reviews, I just don't. I wait for it to come on the air, just like everybody else.

Jeff Daniels

#2. I don't look at rushes, or I don't go to the dailies. I don't even really look at playback ... unless it's an action scene or a move that I need to do better, something like that.

Saoirse Ronan

#3. As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies ... is you fall in love with moments.

Kevin Spacey

#4. The Murdoch-owned 'Sunday Times' has an appalling history of involvement in illegal activity. And it's because they're Sunday papers; they're trying to get scoops that the dailies haven't got.

Nick Davies

#5. I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.

Kevin Spacey

#6. I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

Steven Spielberg

#7. In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.

Don Ameche

#8. When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.

Wes Anderson

#9. My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

Sofia Coppola

#10. I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

Richard Jenkins

#11. I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.

Eliza Dushku

#12. I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.

Roger Deakins

#13. I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.

Tom Holt

#14. I am fascinated by the dailies, what is daily.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#15. I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.

Dianne Wiest

#16. I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work for the day. Reading about what is happening in Turkey once again would only be demoralizing for me.

Orhan Pamuk

#17. And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from ... so I know exactly what we have. And so I can then go into the editing room and be like "I want you to do this moment, this moment, this joke, that joke. I'd like to see 3 versions."

Nicholas Stoller

#18. Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important.

Geena Davis

#19. A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.

John Frankenheimer

#20. When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.

Lance Henriksen

#21. The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

George Jackson

#22. You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.

Dianne Wiest

#23. I've never actually seen a 3-D movie. I've seen some dailies in 3-D and it kind of gives me a headache. But it looks really cool.

Milla Jovovich

#24. I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.

Debbie Allen

#25. When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

Catherine Deneuve

#26. I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.

Joel Coen

#27. Even in manipulating the images, I would like to do my dailies in a digital way because you can do so many things in that stage that I cannot do in real photography.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#28. And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what ... to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

Nicholas Stoller

#29. 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

#30. My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.

James Bobin

#31. 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