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Film Editor

Thelma Schoonmaker, born on January 3, 1940, is an accomplished film editor. She is renowned for her work on Martin Scorsese's films such as 'Taxi Driver' and 'Goodfellas'. Schoonmaker has collaborated with Scorsese for over 40 years, winning multiple Academy Awards together.

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“I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.”

“[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.”

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“Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.”

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“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.”

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Born: January 3, 1940
Known for: Film Editor
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