Paul Hirsch (Oscar-winning film editor of Star Wars)

Reliving My Youth

Noel catches up with Paul Hirsch, the Oscar-winning film editor of Star Wars. He has edited over 40 feature films, including The Empire Strikes Back, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Footloose, Carrie, Falling Down, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, Blow Out, The Secret of My Success, Steel Magnolias and Ray, for which he received a second Academy Award nomination in 2005. His memoir, A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away, came out in 2019.