About Quote by Walter Murch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay,…

— Walter Murch

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