5 Best Editing Quotes

Cinema is about what is in the frame and what is out. And it's about the rhythm, the cadence of the sequence of these images. – Martin Scorsese

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. – Alfred Hitchcock

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. – Francis Ford Coppola

I love the editing process. It's the only time you're able to be Frankenstein and put all the pieces together. – Francis Ford Coppola

You have to murder your darlings. You have to be ruthless in the editing room. – David Fincher