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" I never thought I would get married: I'm such a workaholic. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Married
Never
Thought
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" Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" One day, I read an extremely vague ad looking for someone interested in working in film. Seeing as I loved watching films, I replied, and I found myself working for this guy who did his own personal editing of scenes from Antonioni and Fellini films. "
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" Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because you're being carried along by the power of the film. "
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" Cutting improvisation is really hard, because things don't match, and you end up with some bad cuts sometimes. But we'd rather have the bad cuts and the great improv. "
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" I just happened to see an ad saying 'Willing to train an assistant editor,' and I learned enough from that to go to NYU for just one summer course. That's all that I could afford. "
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" 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.' "
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" I particularly remember with 'Casino,' everyone was like, 'It's not 'Goodfellas!'' No, it's not 'Goodfellas.' That's right: it's a different movie. Now, everyone thinks 'Casino' is a masterpiece. "
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" Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room. "
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Room
Know
" Whenever I can, I like to go to Cotswolds, in England, where my husband had a cottage. I spend my time reading his diaries, which I would like to publish. "
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Go
Husband
" 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. "
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Film
Hours
Three
" With Technicolor restorations, it's about getting the color right. "
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About
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" 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. "
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" It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't. "
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" Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do. "
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Difficult
Most
Things
" We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films. "
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Documentaries
History
Our
" Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
American
Abroad
Parents
" In 'Casino,' there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone's phone call. Then he asks her about where she's going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob's work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn't needed. "
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Great
" Everybody would like us to make 'Goodfellas' over and over and over again. "
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" You have to have a great director to make a great movie. "
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" Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not. "
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Digital
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" I can access footage much quicker, yes. But in terms of living with a film and knowing what's right, digital doesn't do that for you. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Job
Men
" I don't think enough directors know enough about editing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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