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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The studios are nervous on every movie. It never ends, because Marty's movies are so unusual. He doesn't repeat himself, so they don't know what to expect. We have to fight hard to keep them from being ruined. Film students can't believe that when I tell them, because they think, 'Well, it's Martin Scorsese.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cutting improvisation is really hard, because things don't match, and you end up with some bad cuts sometimes. But we'd rather have the bad cuts and the great improv.
- Nov 07, 2020
My job is so wonderful.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love improvisation. I mean, it's hard to edit, because things don't necessarily fall together - you have to find ways to give it a dramatic scope, shape. But it's so much fun.
- Good Deal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought that's the wonderful thing about filmmaking: people see things differently.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the best job in the world.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All great directors or anyone who has a strong vision like Scorsese needs to have a lot of support around them. I think from the very beginning - when we met each other - he realised he could trust me to do what was right for his movies.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very lucky. Most of my friends wait long times for jobs and also don't get the chance to work on 20 films, like I have, with someone like Scorsese. I love working for him. I just would never - I can't imagine working for anybody else.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are more women editors than people realise. I think we're more able to keep our eye on what the film needs. Between men, sometimes it's a real ego battle, and that's very bad for the film.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the very beginning, women were editors because they were the people in the lab rolling the film before there was editing. Then when people like D. W. Griffith began editing, they needed the women from the lab to come and splice the film together. Cecil B. DeMille's editor was a woman. Then, when it became a more lucrative job, men moved into it.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality is key. We're very good at organizing and discipline and patience, and patience is 50 per cent of editing. You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for people to understand editing, I think. It's absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you have to form it - this raw, unedited, very long footage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you can imagine, between Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese, I've had quite a rich life!
- Bull
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- Nov 07, 2020
The studio was very nervous about 'Raging Bull.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
In certain fight scenes in 'Raging Bull' - for example, the shorter ones - I literally just took the head and tail of the shot and put it together, and it all worked beautifully.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can access footage much quicker, yes. But in terms of living with a film and knowing what's right, digital doesn't do that for you.
- Insane
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- Nov 07, 2020