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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers.
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
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.
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
Movies are an editor's medium.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.
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.
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.