About Quote by Thelma Schoonmaker

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

— Lynn Shelton

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

— Logan Lerman

I know a lot of editors who are very bitter about the directors they work with. They feel they could have done a better…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I depend on good editors and a good director.

— Indira Varma

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

— William Monahan

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have…

— Joe Dante

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't…

— Richard Gere

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

— Alan Parker

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

— Christopher Atkins

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

— John Lee Hancock

A lot of directors, they don't go into the editing room during the shoot. When they come back, they've forgotten what they've shot. That's…

— Til Schweiger