Telma Schoonmaker - Importance of Editors Music Sense
Legendary ACE Editor Thelma Schoonmaker, on the importance for an editor to have a Music and Acting Sense, able to pull Rhythm, Pace and Timing out of the Movie 🎭
If you don't know, Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over fifty years. She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), and edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull (1980). Schoonmaker has received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for Raging Bull (1980), The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006), which were all Scorsese-directed films.