[...] Studying the footage, rearranging it and experimenting with the effect of different shot selections, Cassavetes created at least five separate, entirely different edits of the film. One of the reasons he overshot so massively in all of his work was precisely so that he could do this – so that he could change the narrative, the relationships, the emotional through-line and the tones of scenes during the editing process to reflect what he learned in the course of shooting the film or realized as he studied the material in the editing room. Ben Gazzara said he was impatient with Cassavetes and got as angry as he ever got with him over what was wrong with Tanner’s edit, but, though it took him a long time to see it, in the end he realized that, ‘In editing, he went on a voyage of finding the film. You thought you knew what the film was already, but he saw things in it all the time, new and different things, and took the time to explore them.’