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 two Oscars during his multi-decade partnership with Zemeckis: for “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” (1988) and for “Forrest Gump.” […]
“This is one of those things where you read it and it just works in a number of ways.” […]
“Here was this grand opportunity to work with a majority female crew in terms of the top positions: majority female directors, a female showrunner, and majority women in post.” […]
“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 the line and the next person speaks, and you cut to it right away. Billy was always most interested in making unpredictable cuts that, in his mind, were better.” […]
“I started to recognize that this was a portrait of Korean Americans and Asian Americans in general that we hadn’t seen before.” […]
“History is seductive for me.” […]
“We both came to this with a lot of fear and anxiety about how to accomplish all of this technical wizardry.” […]
From Francois Truffaut to George Lucas to Paul Thomas Anderson, moviemakers have always plumbed their own lives for source material. […]
“It may be the hardest movie I’ve ever worked on.” […]
“It’s a bizarre, violent, funny movie, and, yes, it is exactly what I signed up for.” […]
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