#editing

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#films #go #i #old #only

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cut #day #editing #film #grew

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#could #editing #ever #get #heavy

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#because #being #cut #distinctive #editing

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing. ↗

— Anna Sui

#collection #creating #editing #involve #lot

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#because #could #editing #finishing #i

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#editing #editing-humor #editors #joy #neurosis

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love. ↗

— Stephanie Roberts

#fiction #fiction-writing #love

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it. ↗

— Don Roff

#humor #revision #writing #humor

When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specifically: His rhinoceros smelled like a poppadom: sweaty, salty, strange and strong. Her editor would cut that line. ↗

— Jaclyn Moriarty

#humor #romance-novel #writers #writers-block #humor