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The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.
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I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
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Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
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I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
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On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
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If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
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I like business and personal life to be distinct.
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Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
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New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
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John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
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Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
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I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
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Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
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I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
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Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
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Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
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I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
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How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
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All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
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I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
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I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
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I think being a little nuts is helpful.
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The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
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In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
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There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
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A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
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