Originally posted by: klokwerk
I think he was contrasting Chris Columbus' shooting method to Alfonso Cuarón's. That is to say: Columbus shot 'everything in sight' meaning there was lots of deleted footage, whereas Cuaron didn't shoot as much extraneous stuff and so there isn't as much deleted footage.

Yeah, what he said, although I definitely like Cuaron's style more than Columbus, particularly for Azkaban, which was intended to be darker. I'm wondering if the ABC edit will be re-edited by Cuaron himself (as with the Columbus films), or if someone else will do it. I have a hard time imagining him going back into it.