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After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.
The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing.
I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
Lycos needs to be bought because other suitors will have to pay a higher premium
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.
I was never one of those people that would just take jobs that were thrown at me.
Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
I like live musicians and personally orchestrate about 80 to 90% of all my scores.
I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.
Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.
In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.
Science and mythology were the topics which fascinated me since my early childhood.
Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.
I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.
I think the Wachowskis are two of my favorite people on the planet; they're the best.
I don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern.
Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.
If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.
It's called the Santa Claus effect; the holiday period is traditionally a strong cycle.
For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.
I have so much regard for the art of conducting. It's easy to look not so good up there.
I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.
I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.
In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.
I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.
When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.
I was pretty lucky to have grown up during the 'Star Wars,' 'Indiana Jones' and 'E.T.' years.
I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.
I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.
I lived in New York City for six years, and I was always amazed at how diverse everything was.
I think that to capture food in music, you really are capturing an emotional response to food.
People on 'The Incredibles' would ask me if I listened to a lot of spy scores, but no, I don't.