Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an American film editor and sound designer. Read full biography of Walter Murch →
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... →
Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the... →
Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without... →
I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate... →
I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds.... →
I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there... →
If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly... →
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those... →
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we... →
There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the... →
Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an American film editor and sound designer.