On admiring editors: The famous ones like Walter Murch, Ralph Rosenblum, Thelma Schoomaker, Michael Kahn and so on are easy to admire. They have huge freaking film budgets, loads of assistants, and lets be honest, really really good directors who have tons of experience in the cutting room... so they're bound to get the stuff that will cut. I'm not saying they're not great, it's just that I think we need to consciously admire normal career editors that struggle with half decent footage to make a sequence understandable. There are many many editors out there who should be admired for making 'shit' work. And of course, they have to be silent about that, or else they won't get work again!
