Peter Tonguette

Happily, there’s gold to be found on nearly every page of this engaging book.

Helping make the mystery—and the wit—come to life are supervising sound editors Mathew Waters and Danika Benton Wikke.

“If you can keep an audience connected to the character and the story, and not lose them on pacing, then you’re doing your job well.”

“One of the things we had to adapt very early on is the communication in the form of notes from Michael.”

Henry died on January 14 at the age of 67 in Los Angeles, where she had lived her entire life. She is remembered among her many colleagues not just for …

“So much of the tone of the show is set in the edit bay, and we are super-fortunate to have a group of editors that work in collaboration.”

“I can’t pick sides. That’s the great thing about being an editor.”

“The whole goal was: ‘How do we keep Lenny’s heartbeat and human nature alive through the whole thing?’”

The late filmmaker William Friedkin was fond of describing his 1973 horror masterpiece “The Exorcist” as being a meditation on “the mystery of faith.”

For director Robert Zemeckis, Schmidt was the editor of, among other classic films, the “Back to the Future” trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), “Forrest Gump” (1994), and “Contact” (1997). He won …