Danny Elfman Quotes

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• For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
• It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a…
• I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life and bringing it to the…
• Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend…
• This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town…
• It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.
• You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't…
• In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.
• I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be…
• The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here,…
• The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.
• Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be…
• Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or…
• If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.
• I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
• I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get…
• I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of…
• I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is…
• I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a…
• In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And…

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