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Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.
“Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.”
— John Crowley · Editing
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“Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.”
“Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.”
“The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against.”
“Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.”
“I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.”
“I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.”
“I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.”
“I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.”
“What I don't have in theater is editing.”
“To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.”
“I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound of it.”
“When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.”