"Good editing is either telling a story nicely or covering up the lack of it."
-- Sunil Kumar
www.saregamafilms.com

"Never be the shooter & the editor. You need someone to blame."
-- Scott Martin

"Will my VHS tapes look better when digital?"
-- Mike Savino
www.MikeSavino.com

Producer: "Doesn't it make you feel good to work through the night with people you really like. Give me a hug!"
-- Tony Breuer
abreuer@ix.netcom.com

Final Cut Theory of Evolution- " God created the universe in 6 days, it just took millions of years to render."
-- Jack Dragga

The earlier you start, the longer it takes.
-- Sanjay Talreja
Documentary Film-Maker

"It doesn't have to be like, it just has to look like"
-- Carl L. Marxer

Catastrophic hardware issues or failures never, ever, happen before 2AM.
-- Mike Chapman
www.linkedin.com/in/futureink

The movie business is glamourous.
-- Mark Morris
www.MarkMorrisProductions.com

The three most important things in editing: BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP !!!
-- Wallace Braud
http://www.wallacebraud.com

"Editing is the process that transforms a miscellaneous collection of badly-focused, poorly-exposed and horribly framed shots containing reversed screen direction, unmatched action, disappearing props, flair, and hair in the aperture (but not containing any close-ups, cut-ins, or cut-aways), into a smooth, coherent, and effective visual statement of the original script ... for which the director gets the credit."
-- Lachlan Coles
ldcoles@chariot.net.au

"where there is confusion, there is money to be made"
-- Ron Sussman

The best shot is always three seconds too short.
-- Bob Hirschfeld
https://www.llnl.gov

"Finally! Now I have enough storage to last me forever."
-- Bob Cole

A film is never finished, only abandoned in post.
-- Austen Courpet

Always leave one glaringly obvious error in the edit for the producer or director to say "I think it's fantastic, just need to fix that one thing..."
-- Alec MacNeill Richardson
www.mirrorworld.ca

"We'll fix that later" means YOU'LL have to figure out how to correct it.
-- Rich Corbett

Always leave an obvious easy to correct mistake for your producer to find - that way they feel part of the process, and they leave the rest of your edit alone.
-- Todd Miro
www.mirodigitalarts.com

"There are those that, no matter how important their title says they are, have no business making an editing decision."
-- Brian Satchfield
www.digitalmediaservicesflorida.com

"Directors who always say they've shot more-than-enough footage have never had a story to tell."
-- Brian Satchfield
www.digitalmediaservicesflorida.com

"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have lost data, and those who WILL lose data."
-- Antonio Manriquez
www.antoniomanriquez.com

There's a reason with almost a hundred years of the film business behind us, someone invented log sheets, and a slate.
-- Laurie McNair
www.randomorder.net

Only a good editor can rescue a project from a bad script.
-- Darren J. Ley
http://delta.ncsu.edu/video

The bigger the production company, the longer it takes.
-- Sanjay Talreja
Documentary Film-Maker

The word 'done' doesn't seem to exist in this industry until someone realises it's airing the next day.
-- Sam Mangan
http://web.mac.com/samboway/
Sam_Mangan_-_Musician/
Entrance_-_Sam_Mangan_.html

Never keep a loaded handgun in the edit desk while clients are in the studio.
-- Shaun C. Roemich
www.gearheadvisual.com

What part of a rough cut don't you understand?
-- Scott Carrey
www.scarrey.com

No executive ever went to"How To View A Rough Cut" class.
-- Alan Miller
http://www.dvdoutsider.co.uk/

Beware when the client says, "I trust your judgment"
-- Bob Merrill
www.mfocusmedia.com

Never trust a shooter who says, "They can fix that in post."
-- Janet Malik
www.shamrockcommunications.com

A hard drive will never fail until you've completed the final edit on it.
-- Cedric Pounds