There's a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there's the abstract track: what ideas are suggested by the literal. And the real movie takes place in the relationship between the literal and the abstract.

It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different ways so that you have more choices when you're sitting down to edit that sequence six months later.

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

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

Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think I have a good sense of rhythm, as they say in some fields. But I don't know anything about music.

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