#editing

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. ↗

— Terri Windling

#editing #editor #inspirational #reading #writing

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it." (Casual Chance, 1964) ↗

— Colette

#editing #self-criticism #writing #chance

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#big fan #bits #editing #fan #i

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

#aspects #assumes #choice #edit #editing

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#editing #i #jobs #kinds #mostly

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

#because #bring #dad #editing #film

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing. ↗

— John Crowley

#characters #difficult #does #editing #film

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. ↗

— George Wald

#editing #products #rather #than

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#camera #editing #feel #i #i feel

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm. ↗

— Donnie Yen

#me #rely #rhythm #scoring #shooting