Behind the Seen

Oct 21 2004
Charles Koppelman

"Something emerges that's not contained in any of the films...Thinking about the chance and fortuitous discovery - precious and invaluable to Murch - he lights up just imaging that (Cinemasports) day in London, acting out its spirit: " ...We have to have falling petals in the story? ... I know a place in the park! These things crystallize very quickly, like a snowflake - faster than the water molecules can keep up with the crystallization - that's what makes a snowflake beautiful, unlike the ice cube, which freezes slowly and predictably...You get beautiful randomness with an underlying pattern, the six-pointed star of the H2O molecule..."

-3 time Academy Award winner Walter Murch

See Walter's address at DV Expo
He talks about Cinemasports at minute 17, but the whole address is fascinating.