Why is film editing one of the few jobs in the movie industry where women are properly represented?
I think women make good collaborators, and every director deserves that kind of support. Editing requires very hard work, patience, discipline, and good organizational skills, and these are second nature to many women. Of course, talent is the most important thing in editing—a sense of how to shape material, how to get the best out of the actors’ performances, rhythm, pacing, structure, a good musical sense—and that is not something only women have. It’s interesting that you mention Good musical sense. You were actually an assistant director on the movie Woodstock, right? I was just trying to help get the film shot. Scorsese was helping [director and cinematographer] Michael Wadleigh try to organize camera moves among all the cameramen on the stage, but it soon became impossible. The headphones that the cameramen were wearing were getting loud jolts of sound from somewhere, and you could see them ripping their headphones off all over the stage. So, Scorsese concentrated on helping Wadl
