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#010 - Advice from Spielberg's Editor

Don't edit from knowledge, edit from feeling.

— Michael Kahn, Film Editor

Michael Kahn has been director Steven Spielberg's go to editor since Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) having collaborated on every single Spielberg movie (except for E.T.) since then.

He's been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Editing seven times, winning thrice for Raiders of The Lost Ark, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.

So what he has to say about editing, I want to know!

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