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One of my favorite apps is VSCO, which is for editing photos. I think they have great filters. And then I read the New York Times.
I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.
Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything!
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound of it.
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.
Because the Pang brothers are twins, they would rotate days on set. One of them would be editing, and one of them would be shooting.
I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.
A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.
I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.
Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.
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.
You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
I think people are feeling more artistic and creative with something like Instagram that makes editing easy. That's a good thing for sure.
My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.
If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.
I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.
Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to the editing.
You know 'Ninotchka?' I recommend it. It's kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools, so it kind of chops along.
You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.
Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest.
I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
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've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.
When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'
Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix.
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.
Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.
I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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.
Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.
Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.
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.
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.