S. S. Rajamouli Quotes

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

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.

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.

The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

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

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

When you start working on screen, a lot of the time it can feel like you're just trying to make sure that you're not bad.

I don't like to watch dailies or video playback unless I have to.

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

I can't remember who said, 'No film is completed, just abandoned,' but I think most filmmakers will tell you that they could endlessly fiddle with their films for the next couple of decades, you know, changing things, altering things.

I remember walking into the editing room when I was a junior in college, and I watched the guy make cuts, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. He was just putting these shots together and telling the story, and it was amazing.

Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's, 'Where did I screw up?'

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up.

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

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.

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

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

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

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.