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.

Walter Murch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1943

Topics

MusicAgeThinkOthersMoreFilm

If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.

Jim Rash

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At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them.

Andrew Oliver

DayTeamManagementEndGoProject

Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

Amy Sedaris

GoodCuteGiftThinkYouForget

Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks.

Mary Pilon

GoalsFocusYourselfVideo GamesYou

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Miranda Richardson

AttitudeLaughYouLos AngelesYour

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

Lukas Foss

WorkTogetherLovedGeniusPlayGo

My sister ran away for four years; she was living on the streets. I didn't know where she was, and then I was getting in trouble.

Jason Day

SisterTroubleKnowLivingSheFour

I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances.

Jason Robert Brown

CommunicationMeMakeupWantMore

Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors; the battle, instead, is between mankind - more precisely, Western mankind, with all its fire-breathing machinery and inexorable arrogance - and Africa, which has been proving itself untamable for centuries now.

Jonathan Miles

HeartArroganceBattleNowAfrica

I like colours. I like to be bright and bold.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

BoldBrightLikeColours

If you don't take a risk, you will not be satisfied and happy. I think one must look at creating history.

Remo D'Souza

HistoryHappyThinkYouLookWill

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Guillermo del Toro

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