High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This list of film director and editor collaborations includes longstanding, notable partnerships of directors and editors. The list`s importance is that directors and editors typically work together on the editing of a film, which is the ultimate step of filmmaking during which the dozens or hundreds of hours of raw film "footage" are pruned and woven into the final film. Film critic Walter Kerr has argued that editing is comparable in its importance to directing itself, and should be credited as such; he wrote "At the very least, it seems to me, the editor`s credit should be rescued from its place near the bottom of the list, an area we may call Oblivion. And I don`t mean the editor should be given a mere half-a-leg up, nudged one inch higher in the Pantheon of creative people who do things. The best he ever gets now is fourth or fifth spot, somewhere after the principal photographer and two or three screenwriters. Second position is where he belongs, and no lower, if we`re still going to hold him to also-ran status."Quentin Tarantino has been quoted as saying, "The best collaborations are the director-editor teams, where they can finish each other`s sentences," and that his own editor, Sally Menke, was his "only, truly genuine collaborator."