Scorsese Quotes by Thelma Schoonmaker

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

'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

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

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

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

Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

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

Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

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

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

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

Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

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

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