Quotes for All
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. Gail Sheehy
There’s this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it’s so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it’s so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if … Read more
The idea that a film is created in the editing room – it’s only a certain kind of movie that’s made in the editing room and it’s not one that I really want to see. Ethan Hawke
Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more. Esther Freud
I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. Ernest Hemingway
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir. Emily Dickinson
I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it’s me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing. Ellen DeGeneres
Sometimes I think it is … frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally … Read more
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them. Elie Wiesel
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. Eleanor Tomlinson