Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.