"It all depends on the directors. Working closely……" — Danny Elfman
"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 color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back."
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39 Quotes by Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman has 39 quotes on this site.
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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…
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It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a…
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I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life…
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Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a…
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This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town,…
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It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants…
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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…
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In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.
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I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning,…
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The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and…
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The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time…
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Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say…
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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