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Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

Algerian - Editor | January 3, 1940 -

Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Opinion Boxing Insane Should Banned

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

Great End You Bad Sometimes Hard

I love improvisation. I mean, it's hard to edit, because things don't necessarily fall together - you have to find ways to give it a dramatic scope, shape. But it's so much fun.

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Love Together Fun You Fall Find

All great directors or anyone who has a strong vision like Scorsese needs to have a lot of support around them. I think from the very beginning - when we met each other - he realised he could trust me to do what was right for his movies.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Vision Great Trust Beginning Support

When we were cutting 'Raging Bull,' Martin Scorsese was watching 'The Films of Hoffmann' on a 16-mm print over and over and over again.

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Bull Watching Over Again Print Were

As you can imagine, between Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese, I've had quite a rich life!

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Life Rich You Imagine Between Quite

We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.

Thelma Schoonmaker

History Cinema Between Our Feature

The studio was very nervous about 'Raging Bull.'

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Nervous Bull Studio Very About

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.

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Family I Am New York Feel Back New

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.

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Saying Enough Train Summer Go See

It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.

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Job You Always Drop Your Stuff

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.

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Together Fight Bull Head Example

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