Invisible Art
The best editing is invisible. When an audience is engaged, they never think about cuts, transitions, or pacing. They are simply inside the story. This invisibility is the highest achievement of the editor's craft — to shape time and emotion so seamlessly that the audience believes the film always existed in this form.
Continuity Is A Myth
The Kuleshov Effect proved that meaning is created between shots, not within them. A shot of a face means nothing until you cut to what the face is looking at. The editor controls meaning by controlling sequence.