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I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

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.

Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story.

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.