The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.
I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.
Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D. C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
I was crying when I was editing [Beacher] but I stopped all the screenings years ago because I had a headache but then I had seen it again. . . Well I always cry at the same place, when they play that song "Wind Beneath My Wings". It gets you.
I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what they do and then leaving. I like attention, but it actually gives me a little less to work with as a performer if people are editing themselves and not being them.
The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.
I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting.
Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.
Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way. " My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre.
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.
Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.