Women are mostly mothers and directors are mostly children, so the two go very well together.
Anne V. Coates Quotes
Anne Voase Coates OBE (12 December 1925 – 8 May 2018) was a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career. She was perhaps best known as the editor of David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia (1962), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
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