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— Zadie Smith"The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer."
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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
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