| | Walter Murch started his career as a sound editor for Francis Ford Coppola. |
| | | He won a film editing Oscar for "The English Patient." |
| | | His screensaver started as he spoke, projecting the PowerBook's "Cosmos" slides. |
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| | Walter Murch edits standing up. |
| | | "Editing is a combination of brain surgery and being a short order cook..." |
| | | "...Both cooks and surgeons stand while they do what they do." |
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| | "Feel the cut. It's a musical thing." |
| | | If you scrub frames to find the cut... |
| | | "You're doing it in a way the audience will never experience." |
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| | Advice: "Try to make the film smarter than you are." |
| | | "Truth is stranger than fiction--fiction has to make sense." |
| | | Murch recommends: Learn each new film as if it is a foreign language. |
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| | "Let the film speak to you." |
| | | Murch showed some snapshots from his recent experience editing "Cold Mountain." |
| | | He creates a layout like this at the start of every project. |
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| | Each element is a scene. The colors and shapes all mean something to Murch. |
| | | He says he likes the introduction of artsy-craftsy work... |
| | | ...into such a machine-dominated job. |
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| | After a standing ovation, he signed copies of his book In the Blink of an Eye. |
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