Walter Murch Quotes
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.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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A novel is not a rant.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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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.
