For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed….

When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they wo….

I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of dis….

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer..

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them..

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

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to….

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we e….

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more..

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 ….

I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends….

The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, s….

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. O….

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

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me..

In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're inspired by.….

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 ma….

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..

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease..

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient….

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