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When we were cutting 'Raging ...

When we were cutting 'Raging Bull,' Martin Scorsese was watching 'The Films of Hoffmann' on a 16-mm print over and over and over again.

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Michael Powell always used to...

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.

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You have to keep banging away...

You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

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I have a great relationship a...

I have a great relationship and the highest respect for Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio. But working with De Niro has been simply incredible. While I was editing 'Raging Bull,' I was literally unable to take my eyes off him.

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If I hadn't met Scorsese, I w...

If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and has given me the best job in the world.

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One day, I read an extremely ...

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.

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I love being around great art...

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

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In the very beginning, women ...

In the very beginning, women were editors because they were the people in the lab rolling the film before there was editing. Then when people like D. W. Griffith began editing, they needed the women from the lab to come and splice the film together. Cecil B. DeMille's editor was a woman. Then, when it became a more lucrative job, men moved into it.

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Even though my parents are Am...

Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad.

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I'm not a big believer in fat...

I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks.

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Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a fi...

Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because you're being carried along by the power of the film.

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People expect artists to be t...

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings who behave differently than ordinary human beings. If they weren't as sensitive as they are, they wouldn't be great artists. They are not the same as us. People should just learn to accept that.

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I'm not a person who believes...

I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality is key. We're very good at organizing and discipline and patience, and patience is 50 per cent of editing. You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

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Editing is really like plumbi...

Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.

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I'm very lucky. Most of my fr...

I'm very lucky. Most of my friends wait long times for jobs and also don't get the chance to work on 20 films, like I have, with someone like Scorsese. I love working for him. I just would never - I can't imagine working for anybody else.

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One of our big tools is scree...

One of our big tools is screening. We screen usually 12 times, which is much more than most filmmakers do, and we recut in between each one, because we really need to feel how the audience is reacting to the movie.

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Some young filmmakers, unfort...

Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly.

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That's the great thing about ...

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

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I knew nothing about editing ...

I knew nothing about editing when I met Mr. Scorsese... Through a series of weird events, I ended up at New York University, and there was Martin Scorsese, and he had some troubles with a film I was able to fix. That's the only reason I became a filmmaker.

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In certain fight scenes in 'R...

In certain fight scenes in 'Raging Bull' - for example, the shorter ones - I literally just took the head and tail of the shot and put it together, and it all worked beautifully.

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