Looking At A First Assembly Is Kind

Writing Is A Process Of Discovery Of What You Really Do Know. You Can't Limit Yourself In Advance To What You Know, Because You Don't Know Everything You Know.

Looking At A First Assembly Is Kind Of Like Looking At An Overgrown Garden. You Can't Just Wade In With A Weed Whacker; You Don't Yet Know Where The Stems Of The Flowers Are.

There Are Two Kinds Of Filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the Film Is Complete In The Director's Mind) And Coppola's (which Thrives On Process). For Hitchcock, Any Variation From The Complete Internal Idea Is Seen As A Defect. The Perfection Already Exists. Coppola's Approach Is To Harvest The Random Elements That The Process Throws Up, Things That Were Not In His Mind When He Began.

This Applies To Many Film Jobs, Not Just Editing: Half The Job Is Doing The Job, And The Other Half Is Finding Ways To Get Along With People And Tuning Yourself In To The Delicacy Of The Situation.

By Manipulating What You Hear And How You Hear It - And What Other Things You Don't Hear - You Can Not Only Help Tell The Story, You Can Help The Audience Get Into The Mind Of The Character.