Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

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.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: January 3, 1940

Topics

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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

Jet Li

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Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Michael Dukakis

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The battle royals are usually among my least favorite matches.

Rob Van Dam

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I really believe in hopefulness and respect people that are hopeful. I think I'm at my best when I think hopefully.

Lucy Dacus

RespectBestPeopleBelieveThink

I just don't know artistically - because I don't write my own music - I don't know artistically what an album would mean for me. I don't know what I would want to say with an album that would be unique to me - something that hasn't been done before. I'm just not sure what that is. But I'm absolutely open to it.

Jonathan Groff

MusicMeUniqueKnowDoneWant

What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.

Douglas Alexander

StrategyYouMattersCoreDeliver

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

Alia Shawkat

LoveSingingEnergyReadingStory

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

Thomas Frank

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I've been in Congress 14 years. I've been on the Appropriations Committee in which we are in charge of trying to move legislation.

Tim Ryan

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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Norman Douglas

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'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.

Nonso Anozie

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