Schoonmaker Quotes

#1. 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.

Thelma Schoonmaker

#2. Let thy personal weakness, O Christian, be an argument to make thee pray earnestly to thy God for help.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat.

Anna Godbersen

#4. Picasso's mother told him if he got into the army, he'd be a general. If he became a monk, he'd be the pope. Instead he was a painter and became Picasso.

Katy Evans

#5. I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.

Catherine Tate

#6. 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.

Thelma Schoonmaker

#7. [The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Lawrence M. Krauss

#8. I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.

Neill Blomkamp

#9. I don't mean that my mother didn't love me but she was not a domestic person: her life was in her mind. The fundamental skill of all mothers - the management

Zadie Smith

#10. A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.

Chaske Spencer

#11. Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet.

Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

#12. Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!

Thelma Schoonmaker

#13. September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

Tom Ford

#14. 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.

Thelma Schoonmaker

#15. 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.

Thelma Schoonmaker

#16. Recurrent memories of Henry Schoonmaker were the most exciting thing to happen in her conscious mind these days.

Anna Godbersen

#17. [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.

Thelma Schoonmaker

#18. But I wanted to tell you before I left how completely abjectly sorry I am for all the pain I have caused you and that if I die you were the one true love of my life. By the time you read this I will be gone but please know I am still always at your side ... Yours forever Henery William Schoonmaker

Anna Godbersen

#19. 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.

Thelma Schoonmaker