Martin Campbell Quotes

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

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

I believe you make a movie three times: once in the development process - putting the ingredients like the script, cast and crew together - once in the shooting process, and once in the editing process.

When you're working on a film, it's not always finished visually, what you're looking at.

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

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

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

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

It's very rare to watch a movie and think, 'That's the movie we shot!' So many things happen, with edits and things getting cut out.

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.

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.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

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

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

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 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.

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

Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error.

There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.