Outtake-Based Self-Education

method of learning the craft of editing by acquiring and re-cutting discarded film prints (outtakes) from other productions, effectively using master filmmakers as indirect mentors. Editor David Wu describes taking "garbage" film rolls from a studio alley and cutting them together, citing Sergio Leone, Kurosawa, and Sam Peckinpah as his "mentors" through this process of hands-on deconstruction and reconstruction.