In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
And too soon Marred are those so early Made.
My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.
Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.
Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great.
By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.
The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.
The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.
The photoshopping of female models is sending precisely the right message to young girls: Learn image editing software!
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
