The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

00:01:02 Move.

00:06:08 shape our response to everything we see on the screen.

00:09:54 "Let's just do it as a test.

00:13:36 where they worked far into the night running the film shot during the day.

00:17:23 "Maybe now I can lose this part.

00:21:47 They were engaged in a pure explosion of creative activity...

00:26:02 Editing techniques the Soviets used to convert their population to Communism...

00:30:02 We will edit this shot into the timeline.

00:34:49 Dede Allen always used to say to me, "I cut with my gut."

00:38:46 In effect, by taking out all the air in that particular dialogue scene...

00:43:00 "you will get away with so much by doing that."

00:46:40 And he's a big guy, plus he carries a gun.

00:50:02 where I'll have Jack come into the editing room with Jay and I'll check out.

00:53:51 I remember one night, I go over to Steven's house in Poland.

00:57:42 Thinking. Other co-conspirator.

01:01:50 as the audience sees it, 'cause you want the audience to respond in a certain way.

01:05:35 Jean-Paul Belmondo's character as this petty thief...

01:09:25 I learned soon on that I could not be stoned and edit.

01:13:19 You need, not just this incredible technician...

01:17:54 They'll do it in reverse and do it forward and then they'll do it in reverse.

01:22:20 For all beings desire happiness. All wish to find their purer selves.

01:26:06 At the end of the day, all this stuff has to work...

01:29:36 was really not shaped until well into the post-production process.

01:33:26 at that moment when you expect the laugh and it comes back at you...