#editing

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#dramatic #editing #film #mere #over

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#editing #go #just #right #scene

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#away #editing #finish #just #making

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#cinema #combination #during #editing #emotional

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#camera #editing #feel #i #i feel

Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various ways artists not only cross borders but also subvert them. In mythology, the old Trickster figure Coyote is a champion border crosser, mischievously dashing from the land of the living to the land of the dead, from the wilderness world of magic to the human world. He tears things down so they can be made anew. He's a rascal, but also a culture hero, dancing on borders, ignoring the rules, as many of our most innovative artists do. I'm particularly drawn to art that crosses the borders critics have erected between 'high art' and 'popular culture,' between 'mainstream' and 'genre,' or between one genre and another -- I love that moment of passage between the two; that place on the border where two worlds meet and energize each other, where Coyote enters and shakes things up. But I still have a great love for traditional fantasy, for Imaginary World, center-of-the-genre stories. I'm still excited by series books and trilogies if they're well written and use mythic tropes in interesting ways. ↗

— Terri Windling

#editing #fantasy #genre #magic #mainstream

The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979) ↗

— Jack McClelland

#editor #humor #margaret-atwood #publishing #writing

What I don't have in theater is editing. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#i #theater

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#done #editing #mail #plan #software

I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions") ↗

— Michael Marshall Smith

#proofreading #change