the film editor vs the director

in many ways, the film editor preforms the same role for the director as the text editor does for a writer of a book - to encourage certain courses of action, to counsel against others, the discuss whether to include specific material in the finished work or whether ner material needs to be added. at the end of the day, though, it is the writer who then goes off and puts the words together.
but in film, the editor also has a responsibility for actually assembling the images.
the relationship between director and editor is somewhat similar in that the director is generally the dreamer and the editor is the listener.
as any fisherman can tell you, its the quality of the bait that determines the kind of fish you catch.