As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
Source, in full
From André Bazin "Interview with Orson Welles", Cahiers du Cinéma, no. 84 (June 1958), as cited in Jean Mitry and Christopher King The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema (1999). Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21377-0, p. 176.