Denis Villeneuve Quotes

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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.

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 cut 'Deer Hunter' myself.

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

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.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

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

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

With digital editing, I now can make many, many versions of a scene.

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.

It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'

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.

The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

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

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.

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

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

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

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.

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.

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