"Peckinpah was amazing to edit for. We'd wait until 10pm for him to arrive in the cutting room, view the day's work, and give us notes. The first thing he'd do, after staggering into the room, was piss out the window. After watching the newly edited scenes, he'd start his comments, speaking so softly we had to lean in, putting our ears close to his mouth. Given his drunken state, we didn't have great expectations. Amazingly, he was coherent, precise, concise, insightful, creative, and brillant. One night he had the idea to intercut two completely different, but equally difficult scenes, resulting in perhaps the best scene in the movie...
Directing him was another story."
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