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The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

Movies are an editor's medium.

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

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.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.