Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't… — 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
