Peter Jackson Quotes

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

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.

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.

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

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

I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics - you know, how to load a camera and how to light and how to edit - and I became a film editor.

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

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.

You know, post-production is a bit of a grind to me. If I'm producing a film, I really... I mean I like editing, but all the other crap, the color mixing and... it's all a grind. And so as a result I cut back producing the number of films I was producing.

With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

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

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.

I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.

I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing - editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.

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.

I just ended up focusing on film editing as I was getting my career started. I'm very passionate about editing and will continue to edit for the rest of my career, but it's not like that was all I did and then somehow I grew into directing a movie.

If I walk into the editing room, it's six hours lost. I'm massaging frames. I'm, like, 'Oh, take six frames off that shot. Hit the music cue right there.' I will drive everybody crazy if left to my own devices in that room. So I try to do everything I can by staying out of the way.

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

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

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.