Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" In 'Silence,' there was no improvisation at all; really, you're dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Really
Improvisation
Silence
Related Quotes:
" Doing 3D on 'Hugo' was a big learning curve for me, but fun! "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Curve
Big
Learning
" I have the best job in the world. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Job
Best
World
" If forced to choose my favourite film, I would have to say 'Raging Bull' because it was the first feature film I worked on, and it was like having pure gold in my hands. But my husband's film 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' is equally a favourite because of its enormous emotional power. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Death
Husband
Power
" Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
American
Abroad
Parents
" I never thought I would get married: I'm such a workaholic. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Married
Never
Thought
" '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
" Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Ability
Young
Some
" '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
Just
Dream
Story
" 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
Liberal
Be Happy
Thought
" In certain fight scenes in 'Raging Bull' - for example, the shorter ones - I literally just took the head and tail of the shot and put it together, and it all worked beautifully. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Head
Bull
Example
" We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Documentaries
History
Our
" 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. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Stone
Work
Great
" 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. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Someone
Who
Right
" Scorsese has very defined ideas about how to shoot a scene, and he's an editor himself - we cut together. It means he's constantly thinking about my problems while he's filming. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Together
Problems
Ideas
" 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. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Bad
You
Sometimes
" 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
Film
Hours
Three
" From the moment I met Martin Scorsese in 1962, he educated me about the films that had taught him so much about filmmaking. He had been deeply affected, even as a child, by great films that stretched his mind and struck into his heart, and he was eager to share them with friends and people who worked with him or with actors who were in his films. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Heart
Me
Moment
" 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 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. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Summer
Enough
Go
" Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
How
Room
Know
" I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Great
Knowing
Lot
" I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Love
Great
Few
" With digital editing, I now can make many, many versions of a scene. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Make
Scene
Now
" 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
" 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
" 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
Me
Know
Best
" 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
Tools
Audience
Big
" With Technicolor restorations, it's about getting the color right. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
About
Getting
Color
" That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end. "
Thelma Schoonmaker
End
Know
Great
" As you can imagine, between Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese, I've had quite a rich life! "
Thelma Schoonmaker
Quite
Life
Imagine