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Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.

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.

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.

I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.

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.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

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