To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing. — 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
With digital editing, I now can make many, many versions of a scene. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
It's hard for people to understand editing, I think. It's absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it. — 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'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
In the very beginning, women were editors because they were the people in the lab rolling the film before there was editing.… — 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
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
'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
