[Film] editing is a kind of surgery — and have you ever seen a surgeon sitting to perform an operation? Editing is also like cooking — and no one sits down at the stove to cook. But most of all, editing is a kind of dance — the finished film is a kind of crystallized dance — and when have you ever seen a dancer sitting down to dance?
(Walter Murch, In the Blink of an Eye, 2nd ed., [Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2001], pp. 44-45.)
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