What you do as an editor is search for patterns, at both the superficial and ever deeper levels–as deep as you can go.

Walter Murch, in “The Conversations, Walter Murch and the Art of editing film”, by Michael Ondaatje.

Walter Murch along with Dede Allen, Thelma Schonmaker, David Lean, all great minds of the film editing craft have inspired me throughout my career, and beyond apparently.