Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edit
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I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about edit...
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
A lot can change in the editing room.
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't...
Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.
Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
If someone doesn't understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most...
Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form.
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