Nicholas Jarecki Quotes

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

Nicholas Jarecki

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• I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • Rhythm
  • Editing

• I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Doing
  • Process
  • Editing

• The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Film
  • Cinema
  • Editing

• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Picture
  • Details
  • Filmmaking

• Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Money
  • Art
  • Filmmaking

• In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • American
  • Effort
  • Filmmaking

• Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Together
  • Filmmaking

• There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Kind
  • Taste
  • Filmmaking

• The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Problems
  • Editing

• The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
  • Home
  • Style

• There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Filmmaking

• If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Certain
  • Airplane
  • Details

• Good things, when short, are twice as good.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Editing

• One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • Business
  • Friends

• I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Teach
  • Student
  • Finals

• There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Kind

• A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Audience
  • Self
  • Cinema

• I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Responsibility
  • Interest
  • Filmmaking

• Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Sometimes
  • Editing

• Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Start
  • Kitchen

• I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Benefit

• I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm out of there.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Work
  • Light
  • Day

• Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

  

  Nicholas Jarecki
  • Filmmaking
  • Editing
  • Complication