One of our big tools is screening. We screen usually 12 times, which is much more than most filmmakers do, and we recut in between each one, because we really need to feel how the audience is reacting to the movie. — 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 Image
Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end. — 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, I replied,… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad. — 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. You need… — 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. Then when… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
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 Image
