Tom Cross - Editor

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James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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EPISODE 129 - TOM CROSS - Editor

Team Deakins enjoys a great conversation with editor, Tom Cross (FIRST MAN, HOSTILES, NO TIME TO DIE). He shares what he learned from working with different editors when he started out and tells us of the different styles of individual editors. We also talk about the fact that it’s not unusual to have multiple editors on films these days and we learn how the work is divided up. He shares his working experiences with director David O’Russell, Scott Cooper, and Damien Chazelle. We discuss working in different formats, creating the style of the film, inserts as the “unsung heroes of movies” and what good editing actually is. And much, much more! A great insight into the world of editing!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James
0:10.7	Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never know where
0:17.6	it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio.
0:23.5	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod.od at RogerDeakin's.com.
0:34.8	Today we have the pleasure of speaking with an editor. Among his credits are Whiplash, La La Land,
0:41.6	Hostels, The Greatest Showman, First Man, and the upcoming Bond film No Time to Die. We're happy to
0:49.6	have the opportunity to speak with Tom Cross today. Tom, thank you for doing this.
0:54.7	Yeah, welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. I am excited to speak with you both.
1:02.3	We're going to start with a question. How did you get to where you are today? Is it something that you
1:07.6	just followed down a path or did you take another path and then find editing or did you want to be
1:12.9	an editor when you were five years old? Well, I grew up loving movies and then this love of
1:19.9	movies was always kind of encouraged by my parents. My dad wasn't a movie person but he just loved
1:28.9	watching movies. We would go to the movies all the time when I was a kid. My mom was an artist.
1:37.4	She would paint and do sculpture. In a way, the idea of me getting into something artistic was
1:45.2	always encouraged. I grew up loving movies. I grew up at a time where I would go to see James Bond
1:54.0	movies, Star Wars movies. Video stores started sprouting up and it got easier and easier to see
2:02.5	movies in a bunch of different ways. It's kind of quaint compared to how what we have today
2:09.1	accessed everything today. But it was so huge for me back then. I just grew up watching tons of
2:16.8	movies. I went to a small film school near New York City, now called Purchase College. I went to
2:26.3	studying a film conservatory. At the time, I thought I wanted to make my own films. But what I found
2:32.1	was that I really gravitated toward the editing process. I just loved what's funny is I loved
2:39.6	working on my own in that dark room. But in school, we also worked with people. We had editing
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