79 Quotes by Thelma Schoonmaker

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

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

The studio was very nervous about 'Raging Bull.'

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.

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.

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

Scorsese has very defined ideas about how to shoot a scene, and he's an editor himself - we cut together. It means he's constantly thinking about my problems while he's filming.

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.

I know a lot of editors who are very bitter about the directors they work with. They feel they could have done a better job, and I say to them, 'Oh really? Why don't you go try - it's not easy.'