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Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.
I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.
I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.
Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.
I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
People are following me because they want to see pictures of me. So why is Instagram editing them?
My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.
Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.
I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.
Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me.
I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that.
The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.
Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.
Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.
The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.
Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.
I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.
Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.