I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

I never thought make-up was like brain surgery.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

Economics is not brain surgery.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.