Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
Frederick WisemanI think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems are resolved in other forms. The issues in all forms are the same in an abstract sense, aren't they? Characterization, abstraction, metaphor, passage of time... Whether it's a movie, a novel, a play, or a poem, those issues exist. And each person resolves them differently.
Frederick WisemanMy job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.
Frederick Wiseman