My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing.… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay,… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
