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Film Quotes by Danny Elfman
- Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend…
- In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.
- 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…
- 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…
- It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love…
- So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball…
- It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a…
- I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing…
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