Walter Murch Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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As Africans, long before the arrival of religion and the gospel, we had our own ways of doing things, ... Those were times that the religious people refer to as dark days but we know that, during those times, there were no orphans or old-age homes. Christianity has brought along these things.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.
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I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.
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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.
