Ricky Gervais Quotes

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 film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

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

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

If you worry about what's going to end up in the final cut, it's like you're thinking about the endgame.

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.

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.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

I don't know how films get made, and I think I'll leave it to other people.

When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

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.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's, 'Where did I screw up?'

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. 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.

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.

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

I've always been interested in directing, writing, and producing, so when I went behind the scenes, it was like a whole new world that I got to experience.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There's so much that goes on, and we miss it when it's over.

I have gained a lot of confidence in my process of making films. It does't mean I'll make a successful film or even a good film, but I know how to make my film.

To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing.

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to leave it on the judgement of your trusted ones and the audiences.