Walter Murch says...

"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."

Walter Murch, ACE
- Film Editor & Sound Designer


2 time Oscar Winner:

1. - The English Patient (Best Film Editing - 1997)
2. - Apocalypse Now (Best Sound - 1980)

Sergei Eisenstein says...

"The most important thing is to have the vision. The next is to grasp and hold it. [...] You must hold and fix it in your memory and senses. And you must do it at once."

- Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Filmmaker
(from Film Form, p. 261)

Good editing is NOT invisible

Since D.W. Griffith, classical film editing has followed suit his style of invisible editing, where editors were trained in hiding edits behind techniques like the Match Cut and Cutting on Action. Now, we meet Dr Karen Pearlman who argues that good editing is NOT invisible in the following clip. Personally, I believe that like a piece of clothing can't exist without seams, the same a film can't exist without editing. Even if there are no cuts at all, the story and story structure are the elements that move the story forward and a source of motivation for each cut (or choosing of not cutting at all). What do you think?




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William A. Fraker says...

"If you want to take 1 class to learn about the cinema, I'd say you should take 1 year of film editing. Editing is extremely important; that's how I started."

- William A. Fraker, ASC (1923–2010)
Cinematographer of Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Dede's Creed

During one of my courses related to film in the UK, I stumbled about this piece of paper attached on the institution’s noticeboard. Personally signed by her, Dede Allen is the editor of Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Do you, as an editor connect to what she is stating here?