Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an American film editor and sound designer. Read full biography of Walter Murch →
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication... →
You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into... →
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... →
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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... →
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you... →
Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how... →
Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.... →
'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... →
I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for... →
I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM... →
Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an American film editor and sound designer.