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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

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.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, period.

Movies are an editor's medium.

I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.