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Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie.
It's just not an image I had ever put out about myself - the bedroom synth guy. The whole thing seemed ridiculous.
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.
Of everything I've done in my career, or whatever you want to call it, 'Lost' is the purest version of me musically.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.
I tend to avoid interviews, I don't have a publicist and fear of failure is still very much alive in my personal life.
A lot of people have said it to me 'You made me cry.' And it was only because I cried myself when I watched the movie.
I have tons of drawings of 'Star Wars,' whether it be stormtroopers, Darth Vader, Star Destroyers, or the whole thing.
I watched 'Land of the Lost' as a kid, you know, incessantly. I loved it. Me and my brother watched it every Saturday.
Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.
Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.
Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.
Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
Filmmaking is hard enough as it is. If you can find a group you love working with, it makes it just a little bit easier.
Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.
I believe very strongly in having melodic hooks, whether they're short or intricate, that you really remember in a movie.
Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.
That's one of the neat things about 'Call of Duty.' There are areas in the game where we were able to score the gameplay.
It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.
If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.
I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.
I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.
Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.
In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.
I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.
When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
If you have a bad story on your hands, you have a bad story on your hands, and no amount of score re-working is gonna save that.
I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
The Internet's a crazy place to hang out because it's insane to see so many people doing so many creative things all over the map.
For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.
I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
Music has been of central importance to Disney movies for as long as I can remember. To contribute to that legacy, is a great honor.
Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?
It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.
I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.