A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

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.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'

The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

I don't do a lot of editing post-shoot, but I use Lightroom to play with contrast and texture and to remove dust.

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

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.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

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 realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

I have been a huge fan of Gautham; I remember him editing 'Kaakha Kaakha' and I used to pray for it to become a superhit.

The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.

I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

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.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of game for chance.

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

I can lock myself for months in the editing suite with no noise or distractions. It's fascinating to see the film taking shape.

I feel like I might be a designer or stylist - or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.

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