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Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes:

Thelma Schoonmaker quotes

Ocupation: Film Editor

Life: b. January 3, 1940

Birthday: January 3

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Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.

Topics: Cutting, Dresses, Weight

quote i read the script just once and then forget it i just deal with what i see every day thelma schoonmaker Quotes

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.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Believe, Men, Thinking

You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

Topics: Thinking, Banging

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

Topics: Believe, Scripts, Forget

I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.

source: - Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

Topics: New York, Editors, Diplomats, Changed My Life, Hacks

[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

source: - Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

Topics: People, Example, Film, Scorsese

Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.

source: - Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

Topics: Special, Genius, Film, Blitz

Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!

source: - Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

Topics: Art, House, Understanding, Wonderful Friendship, Art Director

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

source: - Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

Topics: Europe, Typical, Used

Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.

source: - Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

Topics: Boys, Labs, Colour, Cardiff, Cameraman

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