Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

I think I can try the film world out for a while.

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.

I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.

I loved the Oscars, and I had V.H.S. tapes for the Oscars, and I used to watch them over and over. There was probably one year where I watched it, like, 20 times or something.

I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else.

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

One day, I read an extremely vague ad looking for someone interested in working in film. Seeing as I loved watching films, I replied, and I found myself working for this guy who did his own personal editing of scenes from Antonioni and Fellini films.

Cannes is one of the biggest film festivals across the globe, and getting your film selected for a screening is quite a big achievement.