Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

Andrew Jackson

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The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

Ang Lee

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I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

Tony Judt

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If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks.

Tom Ford

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Sometimes, when people don't like our movies, we're like, 'I'm with you.'

Robert Ben Garant

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In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

Rodney Brooks

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Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

Jason Bateman

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Instead of incentivizing quick, short-term decisions, the federal government should be asking the tough questions when governments turn over publicly funded transportation assets to for-profit operators.

Dick Durbin

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I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

Dick Van Dyke

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If I need a pair of tennis shorts, I'll buy them online. I don't really care. Not going to go and try on a pair and see how my bum looks. Who cares? But for things that you care about - I mean, a jacket and a pair of trousers, you've got to try them on.

Peter Marino

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I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.

Sebastian Thrun

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