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"From Lawrence of Arabia to Fifty Shades of Grey, Anne Coates is Hollywood’s premiere editor", Los Angeles Times (10 November 2016).
• Coates was married to Douglas Hickox from 1958; the couple later divorced.
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When I first came in I wanted to be a director and then later on I had opportunities to be a director and turned them down, because I was married to a director. I never edited for my husband. He did ask me to, but I think if you're there all day working on something, you want to be able to go home and say, "I just worked with that idiot director and guess what he did today!" You can't do that if you’re married to him.

— Anne V. Coates

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When I first came in I wanted to be a director and then later on I had opportunities to be a director and turned them down, because I was married to a director. I never edited for my husband. He did ask me to, but I think if you're there all day working on something, you want to be able to go home and say, "I just worked with that idiot director and guess what he did today!" You can't do that if you’re married to him." in the context of ""From Lawrence of Arabia to Fifty Shades of Grey, Anne Coates is Hollywood’s premiere editor", Los Angeles Times (10 November 2016).
• Coates was married to Douglas Hickox from 1958; the couple later divorced." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Anne V. Coates

About Anne V. Coates

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. Coates was nominated on four other occasions for the Oscar, the other motion pictures being Becket (1964), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Out of Sight (1998). In an industry where women accounted for only 16 per cent of all editors working on the top 250 films of 2004, and 80 per cent of the films had absolutely no women on their editing teams at all, Coates thrived as a leading film editor. She was awarded BAFTA's highest honour, a BAFTA Fellowship, in February 2007 and was given an Academy Honorary Award, which are popularly known as a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in November 2016 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.