Walter Murch Quotes

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• By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not only help tell…
• Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen…
• 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 are…
• I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and…
• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get…
• Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you don't…
• 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 of…
• 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 of…
• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
• The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID…
• Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work…
• The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand,…
• 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 don't…
• Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires…
• You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into…
• The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
• My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that -…

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