Morgan Neville Quotes

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

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. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

The thing with TV and filming is the timing is all faked anyway. You do it so many times, from so many different angles. You never really do it all in one go anyway, so they just fix it all in the edit.

A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then the music needs to be reworked. It's demanding, but when you see the improved cuts, it's always better.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

Each movie I make has its own heroes, and the two heroes for me in 'Arrival' are Amy Adams and Joe Walker, the editor. We worked very, very hard, and it was, by far, the longest editing process.

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more.

I used to sit on the editing table to see where I may have gone wrong because after editing, only the good parts go on screen.

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.

It's funny; before I started writing professionally, I had a job logging video footage for behind-the-scenes footage for special features.

My forte is editing and I am most experienced in that. I love the challenge of playing with material and imagination while editing.

If I walk into the editing room, it's six hours lost. I'm massaging frames. I'm, like, 'Oh, take six frames off that shot. Hit the music cue right there.' I will drive everybody crazy if left to my own devices in that room. So I try to do everything I can by staying out of the way.