When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
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The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
I love the conversation between film and music.
One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.
There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
Music is a dialogue.
It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.
It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
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