When I'm Actually Assembling A Scene, I

The Conversation' Was The First Film I Edited On A Flatbed Machine - A Kem Editing Machine. I've Been Using Final Cut Or The Avid For 12 Years Now, So I Was Interested In Looking At This Film And Seeing If I Could Tell If It Had Been Edited The Old Way.

You Can Always Make A Film Somehow. You Can Beg, Borrow, Steal The Equipment, Use Credit Cards, Use Your Friends' Goodwill, Wheedle Your Way Into This Or That Situation. The Real Problem Is, How Do You Get People To See It Once It Is Made?

Every Film Is A Puzzle Really, From An Editorial Point Of View.

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.

I Think Every Age Has A Medium That Talks To It More Eloquently Than The Others. In The 19th Century It Was Symphonic Music And The Novel. For Various Technical And Artistic Reasons, Film Became That Eloquent Medium For The 20th Century.