I chose to go to Arizona, because it was an opportunity to make something that I've never done. To work with different people and to have a good time….

Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at editing. He would take my far-….

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them..

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting….

Editing was hard for me. It was hard to be in a room by yourself and not have that collaborative spirit. Comedies are really tight and timing is ever….

I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, rev….

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on….

In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example….

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the edi….

There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the layers, try to make things a little bit more u….

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading..

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor..

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. ….

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's g….

When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with your gut - sometimes when you look at a phot….

Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an i….

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the s….

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..

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing y….

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and….

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing..