Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
When you're a film-maker, sometimes you have to be a slave to continuity. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
I hope films will be somehow preserved and seen by as many people as possible in the future. There are endless treasures… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget.… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
When we were cutting 'Raging Bull,' Martin Scorsese was watching 'The Films of Hoffmann' on a 16-mm print over and over and… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter.… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
'Raging Bull' was staggering to work on. I was well aware of how lucky I was to be in this extraordinary situation.… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
I won the Oscar for 'Raging Bull' for those fight sequences. If you look at those fight sequences, those were so incredibly… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky. Most of my friends wait long times for jobs and also don't get the chance to work on 20… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
The studios are nervous on every movie. It never ends, because Marty's movies are so unusual. He doesn't repeat himself, so they… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
From the moment I met Martin Scorsese in 1962, he educated me about the films that had taught him so much about… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
All great directors or anyone who has a strong vision like Scorsese needs to have a lot of support around them. I… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of mystery in film editing, and that's because you're not supposed to see a lot of it. You're… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about editing when I met Mr. Scorsese... Through a series of weird events, I ended up at New York… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
One day, I read an extremely vague ad looking for someone interested in working in film. Seeing as I loved watching films,… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
If forced to choose my favourite film, I would have to say 'Raging Bull' because it was the first feature film I… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
'Raging Bull' was just a dream to work on, but it took a lot of work to get all those fights to work right… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
My family goes way back in New York. So I am a New Yorker; I feel like a New Yorker. It's in my bones. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
One day, I read an extremely vague ad looking for someone interested in working in film. Seeing as I loved watching films, I replied,… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
In the very beginning, women were editors because they were the people in the lab rolling the film before there was editing. Then when… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
I love improvisation. I mean, it's hard to edit, because things don't necessarily fall together - you have to find ways to give it… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter. You know… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share
