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Vsevolod Pudovkin noted that the editing process is the one phase of production that is truly unique to motion pictures.

Every other aspect of film making originated in a different medium than film ( photography, art direction, writing, sound recording ), but editing is the one process that is unique to film.

Kubrick was quoted as saying: " I love editing.

I think I like it more than any other phase of film making.

If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.