Whenever I can, I like to go to Cotswolds, in England, where my husband had a cottage. I spend my time reading… — 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
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
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
Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a… — 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
One of our big tools is screening. We screen usually 12 times, which is much more than most filmmakers do, and we… — 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
