When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.
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The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.
There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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.
I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.
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.
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