Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

Related Quotes:

" I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality is key. We're very good at organizing and discipline and patience, and patience is 50 per cent of editing. You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" The studio was very nervous about 'Raging Bull.' "

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 a dramatic scope, shape. But it's so much fun. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" I'm very lucky. Most of my friends wait long times for jobs and also don't get the chance to work on 20 films, like I have, with someone like Scorsese. I love working for him. I just would never - I can't imagine working for anybody else. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" Having been raised overseas, I wanted to become a diplomat. But the State Department thought I was too 'liberal' to be happy with that job. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" Doing 3D on 'Hugo' was a big learning curve for me, but fun! "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" The difference between a film that ends up three hours and a film that is envisioned as three hours is that it's written that way. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

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

Thelma Schoonmaker

" 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

" We don't worry about continuity because when we're doing so many improvs, it's better to get the laugh. It's better to get the great lines even if they're in the wrong part of the room. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" I won the Oscar for 'Raging Bull' for those fight sequences. If you look at those fight sequences, those were so incredibly storyboarded and shot in an incredible way - that is the conception a good director has to bring. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" All great directors or anyone who has a strong vision like Scorsese needs to have a lot of support around them. I think from the very beginning - when we met each other - he realised he could trust me to do what was right for his movies. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and has given me the best job in the world. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" With digital editing, I now can make many, many versions of a scene. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

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

Thelma Schoonmaker

" 'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you're frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" I don't think enough directors know enough about editing. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" 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 supposed to feel that a film has pace and rhythm and drama, but you're not necessarily supposed to be worried about how that was accomplished. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" As you can imagine, between Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese, I've had quite a rich life! "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" I have a great relationship and the highest respect for Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio. But working with De Niro has been simply incredible. While I was editing 'Raging Bull,' I was literally unable to take my eyes off him. "

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

" We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" I always thought that's the wonderful thing about filmmaking: people see things differently. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" When we were cutting 'Raging Bull,' Martin Scorsese was watching 'The Films of Hoffmann' on a 16-mm print over and over and over again. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" I think everyone loves 'The Departed.' That was a movie that had a lot of problems structurally. And we had to battle with it. Fight. Experiment. Try different things. And I think finally we hit it. "

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 and incorporate them properly into the story. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" There are more women editors than people realise. I think we're more able to keep our eye on what the film needs. Between men, sometimes it's a real ego battle, and that's very bad for the film. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" When you're a film-maker, sometimes you have to be a slave to continuity. "

Thelma Schoonmaker