Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

Algerian - Editor | January 3, 1940 -

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

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Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.

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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.

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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.

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I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

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

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That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

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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.

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

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There's a great deal of mystery in film editing, and that's because you're not supposed to see a lot of it. You're supposed to feel that a film has pace and rhythm and drama, but you're not necessarily supposed to be worried about how that was accomplished.

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I particularly remember with 'Casino,' everyone was like, 'It's not 'Goodfellas!'' No, it's not 'Goodfellas.' That's right: it's a different movie. Now, everyone thinks 'Casino' is a masterpiece.

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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.

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