Editing gives you control of the world, like a mad emperor. Since life is video & video is life, in the editing suite you have control over existence itself . . .
. . . unless you are working for a client. Then you must be like
Proteus, that ancient shape shifter, taking on many guises to protect the
essential beauty and effectiveness of the project which you carry in your
heart like the holy grail, like a vision, like a dream that you defend
and nurture. In this perilous situation you may be required to play the
roles of an unctuous salesperson, a fatuous toady, a sleeper spy, an insurgent
assassin -- whatever it takes to make video art happen, despite the client's
tropism 
toward
inanity and evil.