What I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

By Tim Squyres
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/what_ive_learned_as_a_moviemaker_2807/
When you're the editor, you're not the director. You didn't conceive or shoot the film. When the footage for a scene arrives, try to forget every notion you had about what the scene was supposed to be like and take all your cues from the film that was actually shot. There will be time later to try to push the scene in some other direction, but it's important for me to not have a plan, and to simply find the scene in the footage.