“It is sincerely hoped, that the pains which have been taken to render this work unobjectionable, will be found to have been not ill bestowed.”— Thomas Bowdler
“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but has escaped the terrible desire to write.”— Bennett Cerf
“It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table.”— Johannes Brahms
“Montage, as I see it, is the creation of a sense or meaning not proper to the images themselves but derived exclusively from their juxtaposition.”— André Bazin
“The very essence of the 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.”— Roger Ebert
“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but has escaped the terrible desire to write.”— Clifton Fadiman
“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat.”— Teresa Nielsen Hayden
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”— Alfred Hitchcock