Editor Quotes

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
Peace without justice is tyranny.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
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