It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
I like to kind of change my performance so that there's more to play with in the editing suite. At the same time I think by the time you've done say 55 takes you're exhausted and you've kind of lost the power behind it that you had on take #1 or take #2.
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.
So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.
People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.
I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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.
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.
I think Alma Reville was the only one Alfred Hitchcock trusted. When it came to issues of taste or what the audience wanted, down to editing, script and casting, he would turn to her first. She was his partner.
That was an amazing experience [making Dream of Life]. It's hard to imagine that we were editing every day for a year. And it was pretty extraordinary; it also went by super fast. But every day was an experiment.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Caesar is not above the grammarians.
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.
I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.
When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.
Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.