Quotes About Editing Movies

#1. I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

Frank Darabont

#2. It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.

Haruki Murakami

#4. I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

Spike Jonze

#5. I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

Kris Allen

#6. I am afraid to try for more light lest it mean more dark.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#7. My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

Steven Soderbergh

#8. I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.

Casey Neistat

#9. For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

Haile Gerima

#10. With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'

Gustavo Santaolalla

#11. A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Sofia Coppola

#12. In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

Viggo Mortensen

#13. I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

Lee Daniels

#14. People themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.

Lauren Oliver

#15. With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, this writing thing may just pan out.

Rebel Miller

#16. Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#17. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Jim Rohn

#18. I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

Nancy Meyers

#19. Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Ridley Scott

#20. Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

Janusz Kaminski

#21. Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.

Jhonen Vasquez

#22. In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

Joseph Priestley

#23. Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

Joe Dante

#24. My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

Chrisette Michele

#25. Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.

Joe Dante

#26. Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

Mike Nichols