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" Doing 3D on 'Hugo' was a big learning curve for me, but fun! "
Thelma Schoonmaker
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" The studio was very nervous about 'Raging Bull.' "
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" I always thought that's the wonderful thing about filmmaking: people see things differently. "
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Thought
Always
Filmmaking
" Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Digital
Almost
Film
" As you can imagine, between Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese, I've had quite a rich life! "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Quite
Life
Imagine
" In the very beginning, women were editors because they were the people in the lab rolling the film before there was editing. Then when people like D. W. Griffith began editing, they needed the women from the lab to come and splice the film together. Cecil B. DeMille's editor was a woman. Then, when it became a more lucrative job, men moved into it. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Woman
Job
Men
" '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
Find
Trying
Done
" When you're a film-maker, sometimes you have to be a slave to continuity. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Continuity
You
Sometimes
" My job is so wonderful. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Job
Wonderful
" I started in documentaries, and that was a great help to me with improvisation, because with documentaries, you're handed a big lump of footage, and you have to shape it and make it into a story - which I love doing. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Great
You
Story
" Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
How
Room
Know
" I remember, at the Oscars in 1991, 'Dances with Wolves' won that year, and we were nominated for 'Goodfellas.' One of my peers said to me, 'Why'd you make that bad jump cut?' I said, 'Which one? We had about 20 in the film!' He was really upset about it. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Remember
Jump
Bad
" I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Love
Great
Few
" 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
Work
Chance
Friends
" 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
Battle
Think
Fight
" The studios are nervous on every movie. It never ends, because Marty's movies are so unusual. He doesn't repeat himself, so they don't know what to expect. We have to fight hard to keep them from being ruined. Film students can't believe that when I tell them, because they think, 'Well, it's Martin Scorsese.' "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Fight
Think
Know
" I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Music
Football
America
" It's hard for people to understand editing, I think. It's absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you have to form it - this raw, unedited, very long footage. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
You
Understand
Long
" Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Should
Opinion
Insane
" Everybody would like us to make 'Goodfellas' over and over and over again. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Again
Like
Make
" 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 that perspective. To give it a cold eye. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Perspective
Start
You
" I know a lot of editors who are very bitter about the directors they work with. They feel they could have done a better job, and I say to them, 'Oh really? Why don't you go try - it's not easy.' "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Know
You
Better
" It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Job
You
Your
" 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
Relationship
Great
Eyes
" You have to have a great director to make a great movie. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
You
Make
Director
" 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
Patience
Work
Women
" Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Time
Editing
Good
" I knew nothing about editing when I met Mr. Scorsese... Through a series of weird events, I ended up at New York University, and there was Martin Scorsese, and he had some troubles with a film I was able to fix. That's the only reason I became a filmmaker. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
New York
Weird
Reason
" We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Documentaries
History
Our
" I hope films will be somehow preserved and seen by as many people as possible in the future. There are endless treasures for audiences to discover, if only we can keep them from disappearing. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Possible
Will
Future
" 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. "
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