Julie Plec Quotes

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.

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.

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

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

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 liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

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

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

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

The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.

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

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.

Doing something like 'Bushwick,' a lot of people need to agree that the piece is working with what's going on on the screen. So it's a lot of tweaks and re-works, just kinda moving pieces around and getting things to hit right.

My forte is editing and I am most experienced in that. I love the challenge of playing with material and imagination while editing.

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.

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.

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

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.