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The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

— Paul Hirsch

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In the end, you don't want music to be noticed as much as digested and integrated into the storytelling. And make audiences sit forward in their seats and enjoy the movie.

— Thomas Newman

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

— John Eaton

The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

— Joss Whedon

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

— Adam Ant

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

— P. J. Harvey

A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.

— ASAP Ferg

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.

— James Horner

The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.

— Andra Day

✗Opposing Perspectives

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

— Alfred Hitchcock