cutting room

Noun

Meaning

a room where films or tapes are edited (by cutting out unwanted parts)

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Examples

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie. Harold Ramis

I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it. David Zucker

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor. Natalie Wood

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea. Roger Michell

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