Jay Roach Quotes

You want to keep it in there because you feel like it's yours but to be able to see that sometimes some stuff needs to go and I think it's for the benefit of the film.

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

I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I'm behind the Avid, putting the flick together.

Let go of the things you don't love about your childhood, and keep the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love about your adolescent and adult years, and keep the good things. Just keep the things you love about your whole life.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It's like, well, they're deleted because they're not good or you lost the battle and you couldn't put them in the movie.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

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

In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater

Love is letting go of fear.

Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena - very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going with the flow, union with existence, egolessness, ecstasy. All these are part of it, and all these start happening if you learn the ways of relaxation.

Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.