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The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner

"You can edit the structure and grammar and syntax of a sentence all day, and then realise that the feeling or the sentiment is gone - and you have to really close your eyes and dig deep and try and remember what it was because it's so specific. Language can be so limiting, and it can make you forget what the innate or original thought was. There's a really good quote by yates: 'a line may take years maybe but if it does not seem a moment's thought then all our stitching and unstitching has been naught.' You can edit to zone in, or you can edit to zone out - and it's difficult to know which one you're doing sometimes."

~ Grian Chatten, Songwriters on Process (2022)