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

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

Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about…

- Thelma Schoonmaker

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…

- Thelma Schoonmaker

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

[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 th…

- Thelma Schoonmaker

Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed h…

- Thelma Schoonmaker

I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to…

- Thelma Schoonmaker

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 organi…

- Thelma Schoonmaker