Steven Spielberg Quotes

I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements.

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.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

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.

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

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

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

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

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.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

The thing with TV and filming is the timing is all faked anyway. You do it so many times, from so many different angles. You never really do it all in one go anyway, so they just fix it all in the edit.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

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.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

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.