#editing

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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.'


Joseph Gordon-Levitt


#computer #could #editing #home #i

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


Stephen Hopkins


#being #editing #emotional #emotional life #i

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.


Christopher Nolan


#always #amount #because #discover #discovered

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.


R. A. Salvatore


#book #editing #few #gave #go

Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress... Actually, when you think about it, not many novels in the Spare tradition are terribly cheerful. Jokes you can usually pluck out whole, by the roots, so if you're doing some heavy-duty prose-weeding, they're the first to go. And there's some stuff about the whole winnowing process I just don't get. Why does it always stop when the work in question has been reduced to sixty or seventy thousand words--entirely coincidentally, I'm sure, the minimum length for a publishable novel? I'm sure you could get it down to twenty or thirty if you tried hard enough. In fact, why stop at twenty or thirty? Why write at all? Why not just jot the plot and a couple of themes down on the back of an envelope and leave it at that? The truth is, there's nothing very utilitarian about fiction or its creation, and I suspect that people are desperate to make it sound manly, back-breaking labor because it's such a wussy thing to do in the first place. The obsession with austerity is an attempt to compensate, to make writing resemble a real job, like farming, or logging. (It's also why people who work in advertising put in twenty-hour days.) Go on, young writers--treat yourself to a joke, or an adverb! Spoil yourself! Readers won't mind!


Nick Hornby


#humor #work #writing #humor

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.


Nancy Meyers


#because #coverage #editing #get #i

Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option.


Court Young


#writing #nature

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.


Kevin J. Anderson


#cutting-edge #day #editing #every #every day

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.


David Antin


#improvisation #jazz #just #procedures #talks

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