Michael Scott Quotes

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

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

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

Movies are an editor's medium.

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.

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

It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't.

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] wanted to draw people in with a dialogue - whether it's a creative process or a social issue or innovation of some kind; whether it was how we told the stories or what stories we told. We produced some online videos.

The film is made in the editing room.

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

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

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

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

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

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.

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.