Walter Murch Quotes
'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.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.
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In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.
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I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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'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.
