Nick Kroll Quotes

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.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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 and post-production is so important with comedy.

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.

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.

Movies remind me of recording. Just the process of it - the intricacies, the technicalities, the days and the long hours, and mastering and mixing and editing. But seeing the final product, it all pays off in the end. That's the rush - when you see things come to life.

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

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.

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

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.

A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then the music needs to be reworked. It's demanding, but when you see the improved cuts, it's always better.

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

A lot can change in the editing room.

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

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 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.

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

You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with that.

I believe you make a movie three times: once in the development process - putting the ingredients like the script, cast and crew together - once in the shooting process, and once in the editing process.

Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so.

I'm all the way hands-on when it comes to my videos.

There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.