Edits Quotes

• It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Writing, Long, Garbage

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• Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

  J. D. Salinger

  Boys, College, Men

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when you're trying to create a suspension of disbelief it's much harder to do in front of audience because they become a partner. Moreso than that, they become in charge of the timing. From the simple, mechanical fact that you have to hold for their laughter. The actual timing of the scene is in the hands of the audience. As a control freak, I don't enjoy that as much as the ability to be able to control it in an edit room.

  Jonathan Groff

  Laughter, Simple, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I was talking to Shonda Rhimes the other day and I said, "I. Do. Not. Know. How. You. Do. This." While we're writing episode 10, episode 6 is shooting, episode 3 is in the edit, and episode 2 is in its color session...You've got seven episodes in different parts! It's a wild, wild, wild ride, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was badass and amazing.

  Ava DuVernay

  Badass, Writing, Color

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Blue, Proof

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• You can't edit a blank page

  Nora Roberts

  Pages, Blank Pages, Blank

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• I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

  Chris Crutcher

  Running, Song, Block

  "Whale Talk". Book by Chris Crutcher, 2001.

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• Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Believe, Magic, Finding Yourself

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• Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Fall, Artist, Civilization

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• We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Kids, Effort

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is a business writer who edits her company's weekly public relations magazine. And in Sister Swing, Suyin writes human interest stories for a free, local community paper, The Asian Time.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Character, Swings

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.

  Hannes Holm

  Writing, Night, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The real battle is in choosing in the edit room. It's in how you contextualize information.

  Brian McGinn

  Real, Battle, Information

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I think the best advice I got was to not worry about what other people would think while you were working on your first draft. Focus on getting it out of your head. You can always edit the manuscript later.

  Eden Robinson

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• There are people who just collect a bunch of footage and then edit it later. You definitely feel more protected when a director is moving on when you've actually felt something happen and you know they're watching intently.

  Matt Damon

  Moving, People, Directors

  "Invictus - Matt Damon interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

  Grant Morrison

  Writing, Needs, Sculpture

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting that, I'm just aware in the back of my head what an editor might want. And also, the problems editors run into when trying to edit performances - it helps me head that off at the pass a little.

  Ed Helms

  Running, Editors, Two

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity.

  Simon Pegg

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. October 2, 2008.

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• I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Art, Needs

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing.

  Dave Franco

  Writing, Trying, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Film, Possibility, Shots

  "Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

  Lynne Truss

  Simple, Skills, Icons

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• One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Video, Tropes

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.

  Caleb Shomo

  Song, Writing, Math

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.

  Will Self

  Real, Mean, Writing

  "Will Self's rules for writers" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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