from HOLLYWOOD: THE ORAL HISTORY (2022)
"Film is a funny thing. You can take
a series of five scenes, and there are
perhaps 25 ways you can put them
together. But there's probably only one
way that makes any sense, and you've
got to find that one way. It's almost
like music. If you put the notes of
a piece of music together, you get
something wonderful, but if you take
those same notes and alter them a little
bit, you get dreck. It's the same way
with scenes. You get a chance to
compose in the cutting room. A film
is made both on the set and in the
cutting room. But if I didn't want
a shot I made on the set in the film,
I wouldn't have let that shot get into
the cutting room. You can improve a film
in the cutting room, but you can't find
a great, great film on the table, because
you're only working with what you
brought in. Never bring in anything
someone else could use to ruin your
picture!
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