I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.
The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.
The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.
When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.
If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.
Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.