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Walter Murch Quotes
American
-
Editor
July 12, 1943
Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
Walter Murch
View
Puzzle
Point Of View
Point
Editorial
Every
Film
Really
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 the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Walter Murch
Art
Simple
Editing
Persistence
Almost
Almost Everyone
Art Form
Dedication
Enjoy
Film
Form
Higher
Higher Level
Level
Requires
Any
Does
Everyone
Now
Same
Something
Take
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 the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
Walter Murch
Music
Age
Think
More
Artistic
Became
Century
Eloquent
Eloquently
Film
Medium
Novel
Reasons
Talks
Technical
Various
20th Century
19th Century
Every
I Think
Others
Than
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 along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
Walter Murch
Yourself
People
Editing
Situation
Along
Delicacy
Film
Finding
Half
Jobs
Tuning
Ways
Doing
Get
Job
Just
Many
Other
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 saying.
Walter Murch
People
Saying
Silent
Scene
Assemble
Assembling
Dialog
Lip
Movie
Silent Movie
Actually
Even
Read
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 this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
Walter Murch
You
People
Situation
Way
Beg
Borrow
Cards
Credit
Credit Cards
Equipment
Film
Goodwill
Problem
Real Problem
Somehow
Steal
Always
Friends
Get
How
Made
Make
Once
Real
See
Use
Your
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, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
Walter Murch
You
Determination
Better
Pen
Hand
Quill
Tool
Ultimate
Word
Because
How
More
Much
Other
Say
Than
'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 for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.
Walter Murch
Editing
Way
Looking
Conversation
Avid
Cut
Edited
Film
Final
Final Cut
If I Could
Interested
Machine
Seeing
Using
Been
Could
First
Had
Now
Old
Tell
Years
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 on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
Walter Murch
Hard Work
Work
You
Time
Certain
Certain Level
Film
Glory
Hand
Injustice
Level
Lucky
Mixture
Oscars
Recognition
Same Time
Standing
Every
Few
Get
Hard
Lot
Other
People
Same
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 I work with.
Walter Murch
Work
Look
Job
Attention
Audience
Cut
Editor
Frame
Gently
Images
Manipulating
Parts
Prod
Succession
Various
Various Parts
How
Where
Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
Walter Murch
Influence
Attention
Sound
Huge
Huge Influence
People
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 and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
Walter Murch
You
Character
Silence
Mind
Audience
Create
Frequently
Hear
Manipulating
Road
Rules
Sounds
Story
Tiniest
Get
Help
How
Include
More
Only
Other
Sense
Tell
Things
Want
I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
Walter Murch
Work
Power
Believe
Night
Cinema
Cinematic
Eight
Engines
Every Night
Familiar
Hours
Marvelous
Reality
Secret
Spent
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Version
I Believe
I Believe That
Does
Every
Fact
Over
Us
Years
Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
Walter Murch
If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.
Walter Murch
You
Will
Your
Like
Almost
Blink
Cat
Deliberately
Freak
Guarantee
Reassurance
Reassure
Slowly
Stare
Start
Also
Back
Out
She
Then
Very
Want
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 without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
Walter Murch
Art
Music
Time
Silence
Art Form
Effectively
Energy
Film
Form
Losing
Minutes
Mode
Silent
Stay
Sustain
Theater
Whereas
Go
Play
Really
Use
Without
There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
Walter Murch
Big
Story
Wonder
First
Film
Invented
Link
Objects
Similar
Train
Trains
Voyage
I Wonder
Been
Between
Every
Idea
Without
Would
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
Walter Murch
World
People
Perspective
Looking
Act
Construct
Different Perspective
Effect
General
Glance
Glimpse
Listening
Noun
Primarily
Sort
Sound
About
Different
I Can
Know
Many
Think
Why
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
Walter Murch
I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. '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 for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.
Walter Murch
Truth
Editing
Looking
Conversation
Avid
Cut
Edited
Film
Final
Final Cut
If I Could
Interested
Machine
Seeing
Using
Years Ago
DVD
Been
Could
Few
First
Had
Now
Old
Tell
Way
Years
I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. 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 on a certain level.
Walter Murch
I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.
Walter Murch
Work
Believe
Brain
Stand
Brain Surgery
Delicate
Depend
Difference
Direction
Edit
Editor
Fine
Frame
Particular
Soapbox
Some Things
Surgery
I Believe
Another
Every
Just
Like
Make
Should
Some
Things
I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.
Walter Murch
Work
Music
You
Influence
All My Work
Concrete
Constant
Greatly
Influenced
Mesmerized
Sounds
Been
Could
Idea
Like
Make
Out
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