Woody Allen Talks About Editing Film

Woody Allen answers a question about his film editing process: "In the editing of the film, for me, you start off with very great ambitions. You want to make Citizen Kane. Then you shoot the film and when you get into the editing room you realize that you've screwed up so irredeemably that you just will edit the film in any configuration to avoid embarrassment. You put the beginning at the end. You take the middle out. You change things. The editing process becomes the floundering of a drowning man. That's been it for me since the start of my career. From the first movie I ever did, Take the Money and Run, it was a fight for survival in the editing room. It's not simply—not for me—that you go in there and you've got various themes and you're going to edit the theme like it's Potemkin or something. It doesn't work that way. Not for me, anyway. I'm just in there selling out left and right giving up the last ounce of integrity I have in a need to survive."

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