Editing Quotes
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The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.
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I consciously did away with fade-ins and replaced them with the cut. Henceforth, I never used such editing techniques again. In fact, neither dissolve, fade-in nor fade-out can be regarded as 'the grammar of film,' they are no more than characteristics of the camera.
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Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.
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You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.
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The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on.
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Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
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I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
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My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.
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I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
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When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.
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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.
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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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.
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If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.
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I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.
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Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.
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When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.
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My life needs editing.
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When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.
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When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.
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People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
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I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.
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I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.
