Eddie Kaye Thomas Quotes

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

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.

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

When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

Movies remind me of recording. Just the process of it - the intricacies, the technicalities, the days and the long hours, and mastering and mixing and editing. But seeing the final product, it all pays off in the end. That's the rush - when you see things come to life.

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

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

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 liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with that.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

I'm all the way hands-on when it comes to my videos.

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.

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

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.