Matt Besser Quotes

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

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

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.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

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

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

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.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

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.

It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'

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.

People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.

It's funny; before I started writing professionally, I had a job logging video footage for behind-the-scenes footage for special features.

I used to make little movies when I was younger. I'd make my friends be in them and then edit them.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

I edit as I write and shoot. Any extra line, any pause that I know will get chopped on the editing table is done away with then and there.

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

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.