It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff. Thelma Schoonmaker More Quotes by Thelma Schoonmaker More Quotes From Thelma Schoonmaker 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 endgreatyousometimes Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room. Thelma Schoonmaker dancersroomhowknow 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 thinkyoulongpeople 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 feelyouperspectivepeople As you can imagine, between Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese, I've had quite a rich life! Thelma Schoonmaker yourichimaginelife We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films. Thelma Schoonmaker ourdocumentariescinemahistory The studio was very nervous about 'Raging Bull.' Thelma Schoonmaker bullstudioaboutnervous 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. Thelma Schoonmaker i-amfeelfamilyway 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 sayinggoseeenough 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 headfightjusttogether Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned. Thelma Schoonmaker opinionboxinginsaneshould 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 problemstogetherideasthinking 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 howsomeoneworkwonderful 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 feeljobyouwork I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them. Thelma Schoonmaker beenbeinggreatlove
