Walter Murch quote: "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."

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the...
WALTER MURCH

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by th...
WALTER MURCH

If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at you...
WALTER MURCH

I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning the...
WALTER MURCH

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose f...
WALTER MURCH

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recogni...
WALTER MURCH

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century...
WALTER MURCH

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are ...
WALTER MURCH

There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The cli...
WALTER MURCH

The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on...
WALTER MURCH

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with si...
WALTER MURCH

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use ...
WALTER MURCH

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has m...
WALTER MURCH

Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
WALTER MURCH

I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power ov...
WALTER MURCH

Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps ...
WALTER MURCH

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
WALTER MURCH

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no...
WALTER MURCH

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the ...
WALTER MURCH

'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine....
WALTER MURCH

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog...
WALTER MURCH

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it ...
WALTER MURCH

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, ...
WALTER MURCH

Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in w...
WALTER MURCH

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use ...
WALTER MURCH

Film is really a kind of theater of thought. You're watching people think in movies, which is the fa...
WALTER MURCH

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE

I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center&#...
WALTER O'BRIEN

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poure...
WALTER BECKER

There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ...
WALTER BECKER

We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet hav...
WALTER BECKER

All our wives are experimental psychologists.
WALTER BECKER

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I...
WALTER BECKER

I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the gr...
WALTER BECKER

From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show ...
WALTER BECKER

That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER

You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER

'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER

It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER

There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER

'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER

The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER

I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER

It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER

Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
WALTER BAGEHOT

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause...
WALTER ANNENBERG

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
WALTER ANNENBERG

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu...
WALTER ANNENBERG

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
WALTER ANNENBERG

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
WALTER ANNENBERG

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
WALTER ANNENBERG

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi...
WALTER ANNENBERG

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
WALTER ANNENBERG

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Accomplish something every day of your life.
WALTER ANNENBERG

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
WALTER ANNENBERG

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
WALTER ANNENBERG

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
WALTER ANNENBERG

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually en...
WALTER ANNENBERG

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable late...
WALTER ANNENBERG

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
WALTER ANNENBERG

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
WALTER ANNENBERG

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f...
WALTER ANDERSON

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
WALTER ANDERSON

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, ne...
WALTER ANDERSON

I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
WALTER ALSTON

I put myself through college playing pool.
WALTER ALSTON

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
WALTER ALSTON

The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all condi...
WALTER ALSTON

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
WALTER ALSTON

I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or ho...
WALTER ALSTON

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; ...
ULRICH WALTER

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I...
ULRICH WALTER

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
WALTER WRISTON

She's been on more laps than a napkin.
WALTER WINCHELL

Nothing recedes like success.
WALTER WINCHELL

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
WALTER WINCHELL

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
WALTER WINCHELL

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
WALTER WINCHELL

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
WALTER WINCHELL

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
WALTER WINCHELL

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of...
WALTER WASHINGTON

Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people wor...
WALTER WASHINGTON

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
WALTER WAGER

I always liked spy stories.
WALTER WAGER

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
WALTER WAGER

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
WALTER WAGER

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
WALTER WAGER

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, a...
WALTER ULBRICHT

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
WALTER ULBRICHT

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize pr...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the fe...
WALTER ULBRICHT

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its det...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democrati...
WALTER ULBRICHT

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
WALTER ULBRICHT

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individuall...
WALTER ULBRICHT

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan ...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a f...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict...
WALTER ULBRICHT

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for pe...
WALTER ULBRICHT

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
WALTER ULBRICHT

It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
WALTER ULBRICHT

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obs...
WALTER ULBRICHT

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
WALTER ULBRICHT

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ...
WALTER SMITH

There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
WALTER SMITH

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ...
WALTER SMITH

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
WALTER SMITH

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attent...
WALTER SMITH

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and mana...
WALTER SMITH

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I...
WALTER SMITH

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
WALTER SMITH

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
WALTER SCOTT

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTT

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
WALTER SCOTT

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
WALTER SCOTT

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT

Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTT

When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
WALTER SALLES

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred...
WALTER SALLES

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
WALTER SALLES

The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that ...
WALTER SALLES

The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for t...
WALTER SALLES

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations be...
WALTER SALLES

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you unde...
WALTER SALLES

So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
WALTER SALLES

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
WALTER SALLES

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialog...
WALTER SALLES

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
WALTER SALLES

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gott...
WALTER SALLES

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
WALTER SALLES

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
WALTER SALLES

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
WALTER SALLES

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young c...
WALTER SALLES

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the begin...
WALTER SALLES

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American film...
WALTER SALLES

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to cu...
WALTER SALLES

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
WALTER SALLES

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done...
WALTER SALLES

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who wen...
WALTER SALLES

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
WALTER SALLES

The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
WALTER SALLES

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much pr...
WALTER SALLES

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
WALTER SALLES

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to ...
WALTER REUTHER

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
WALTER REISCH

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
WALTER REISCH

Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
WALTER REISCH

This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
WALTER REISCH

There's no term to the work of a scientist.
WALTER REISCH

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown...
WALTER REISCH

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations...
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike...
WALTER RALEIGH

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
WALTER RALEIGH

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
WALTER PAYTON

Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
WALTER PAYTON

I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. A...
WALTER PAYTON

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want...
WALTER PAYTON

If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot...
WALTER PAYTON

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
WALTER PAYTON

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.

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Walter Murch

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.

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