People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.
I don't see myself as a short-film director, and I'm not a commercial director.
The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?
Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.
I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics - you know, how to load a camera and how to light and how to edit - and I became a film editor.
You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.
