THE ART AND TECHNIQUE OF EDITING ■ Why We Edit I: Narrative Order and Emphasis

For my style, for my vision of cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it is the aspect. Orson Wells (From Cahiers du Cinéma, n°84, 1958)

As an editor, you decide the meaning the spectator is going to get from the combination of pictures and sounds you give. Film [is not] a fi lm until it is edited and that’s so important you almost don’t see it.