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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
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.
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Everybody hates to edit my film. Back in the day, we called it film - now, my digital cards. But I shoot an awful lot of pictures. I don't want to hesitate, because I believe the moment is everything in a picture. So, I take the pictures.
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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.