BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Film editor Thelma Schoonmaker has been
with Martin Scorsese since the beginning. Their collaboration,
which extends over 19 feature films, a handful of shorts and
even a Michael Jackson music video, has made for some of the
richest, purest, most alive American cinema in history, and "The
Wolf of Wall Street," opening next week, is just another notch
on that belt.  I recently sat down with Schoonmaker to discuss
all of that and more, and I don't mind saying, I couldn't help
but gush. Anyone with a passion for cinema, I imagine, will
fight the urge to bow at the feet of a woman like this, who has
been such a consistent force behind some of the most indelible
film imagery of our time.  Schoonmaker has been nominated for
six Oscars for her collaborations with Scorsese, having won for
"Raging Bull," "The Aviator" and "The Departed." Meeting him
changed her life, as meeting her surely changed his. And that
certainly came across in our hour-long conversation, which you
can read through below