It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.
You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.
When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way.
In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.