The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.
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.
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.
There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
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.
The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.