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- 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.
- 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,…
- Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be…
- 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…
- 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…
- That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be…
- The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed…
- You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in -…
- You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that…
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