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- Nov 07, 2020
Editing Room Quotes
Where films are truly finished.
These editing room quotes describe the craft as a second writing process - shaping a documentary's beginning, middle, and end long after filming wraps.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Floors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even at that point. It's not really until you're locked that you can call it quits.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a shifting tone? It's trying to convince your actors to give you the genes and several versions to have more options in the editing room.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.
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- Nov 07, 2020