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" I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" I never thought I would get married: I'm such a workaholic. "

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" To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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" Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not. "

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" Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned. "

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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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" 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 who behave differently than ordinary human beings. If they weren't as sensitive as they are, they wouldn't be great artists. They are not the same as us. People should just learn to accept that. "

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" Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad. "

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