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.
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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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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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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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Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.
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All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.
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You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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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.
