throughout the editing process, and perhaps especially when collapsing interviews, flimmakers need to be careful to maintain accuracy. Something simple as taking a sentence from late in the interview and putting it at the beginning might make sense for the overall film argument, but if it distorts the meaning of the specific interview, you can't do it. "You've always got to try to know when to back away from that stuff," says filmmaker Sam Pollard (Capter 23), "not to manipulate it to such a degree that it's like a lie.