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I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene.

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.

It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

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.

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

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.