Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

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 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.

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

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.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.

For me, writing is a part of directing. It's the first stage of directing.