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I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#About
#Editing
#Enough
#Know
#Think
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
#Feel
#Film
#People
#Perspective
#Start
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
#Better
#Easy
#Feel
#Know
#Work
To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Blessing
#Editing
#Mind
#Receive
#Shot
Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#100 Years
#Digital
#Film
#Last
#Will
An actor's performance can be improved or shaped - or ruined - by what takes you use, how long you are on the actor's face, what line you put on the other actor's face, and when do you use close-ups or wide shots or two shots.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Actor
#Face
#Long
#Performance
#Two
When you're a film-maker, sometimes you have to be a slave to continuity.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Continuity
#Sometimes
#You
As you can imagine, between Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese, I've had quite a rich life!
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Between
#Imagine
#Life
#Quite
#Rich
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
#Good
#Men
#Patience
#Women
#Work
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
#End
#Great
#Hard
#Sometimes
I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Believer
#Big
#Boy
#Fate
#Lucky
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
#Gold
#Hands
#Life
#Power
Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Adolescence
#Childhood
#Even
#Parents
It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Always
#Drop
#Job
#Stuff
#Your
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
#Bad
#Jump
#Me
#Remember
#Upset
Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Difficult
#Ever
#Important
#Out
#Things
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.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Cottage
#Go
#I Can
#Reading
#Time
I always thought that's the wonderful thing about filmmaking: people see things differently.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Filmmaking
#People
#See
#Wonderful
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
#Beginning
#Editing
#Men
#Together
#Women
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
#Better
#Doing
#Great
#Laugh
#Worry
I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#About
#Director
#Editing
#Great
#Knowing
That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#End
#Great
#Happen
#Know
#Things Happen
Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
#Editing
#Good
#Time
#Together
#Two
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
#Clay
#Editing
#Long
#People
#Understand
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
#Discipline
#Home
#Morning
#Patience
#Try
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