I'm in no way suggesting that I succeed, but it's inspiring to read somebody who does succeed and from whom, in a general way, you can draw examples and nourishment and sustenance.

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

I 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.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.