‘One of your tasks as an editor is sensitising yourself to the rhythms that the (good) actor gives you, and then finding ways to extend these rhythms into territory not covered by the actor, so that the pacing of the film as a whole is an elaboration of those patterns of thinking and feeling. And one of the many ways you assume those rhythms is by noticing – consciously or unconsciously where the actor blinks’. – Walter Murch.

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