Film

“Marty never wants to repeat himself,” said Schoonmaker, the three-time Oscar-winning editor best known for her work with director Martin Scorsese on film classics such as “Raging Bull” and “Goodfellas.” …

“I can’t pick sides. That’s the great thing about being an editor.”

“The whole goal was: ‘How do we keep Lenny’s heartbeat and human nature alive through the whole thing?’”

The late filmmaker William Friedkin was fond of describing his 1973 horror masterpiece “The Exorcist” as being a meditation on “the mystery of faith.”

For director Robert Zemeckis, Schmidt was the editor of, among other classic films, the “Back to the Future” trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), “Forrest Gump” (1994), and “Contact” (1997). He won …

“I didn’t go to film school with a background in filmmaking at all. I’d never cut anything together. When I got into the editing room, I realized that this was …

“This is one of those things where you read it and it just works in a number of ways.”

“He didn’t like cuts being in predictable places. In other words, one of the things that you often strive for in editing is to make the editing disappear: somebody finishes …

‘Wait a minute. It doesn’t sound like it did on the mixing stage.’

Marion was known for her dedication to bringing the director’s vision to the screen, and she was fiercely loyal to the many varied directors she worked with.