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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.

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.