Lars von Trier Quotes

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

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.

When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

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

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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.

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

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

Color correction is one of my things.

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

It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't.

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

Actors basically do their thing on the set, and then you put all the pieces together, switch them around, and maybe put them a different way that looks better. We just give him everything he needs, and then he goes in and does his thing.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

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.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

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.

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.

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

Give me the control, don't ever come on the set, and I'll show it to you when it's cut.