If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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.
If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'
Music is so crucial to every film, I think.
A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.