Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

Working with the Coens was a dream come true.

But I'm very keen to work with directors such as Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Anurag Kashyap and Abhishek Kapoor.

There are so many great directors and actors, like Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Rakeysh Ompraskash Mehra, Vishal Bhardwaj, Anurag Basu - the list is very long. I hope at some point I get to work with them.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.

A lot of the guys that work for Warners and make these big films there all come from the same film school. Like Michael Bay, Zack Snyder, Tarsem Singh - they all went to Art Center in the College of Design. And there's a certain expectation when these guys graduate.

I mean, I'm always happy to be compared with Scorsese!

There are definitely directors I want to work with like Dibakar Banerji, Zoya Akhtar, Vishal Bharadwaj, and so many more.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct.

In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.