The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.
The negative is just as important as the positive.
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.
We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.
I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
A negative is never finished.