Nat Talks to Social Network Editing Duo

The Film Experience’s Nathaniel Rogers has many great interviews on his site – here is one with the team behind the flawless editing in The Social Network:

Kirk calls the work “all consuming”, the first thing you think of when you wake up and the last thing you think of before your fall asleep. Fincher is famously known for shooting a lot of footage and the movies aren’t the simplest of entertainments.

Nathaniel: Your job just sounds so overwhelming.

ANGUS: David always equates it with how do you eat a whale? One bite at a time.

KIRK: We spend 90% of our time focused on the detail in front of our noses. Only occasionally do we lean back and go ‘What’s the big picture here?’ You have an idea of where you’re supposed to head but you just try not to concentrate on how overwhelming it can be and also on the expectations. You get under an illusion that you’re making a movie for yourself which is reallly healthy.

ANGUS: it’s like running a ultra marathon, there’s no racing through it. You’ve got to plod your way. You just have to do the work and that’s kind of the joy of it as well. At the end you see the fruits of your labors.

[The Film Experience]