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The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

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.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

I think of myself as a film composer.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you're doing yourself a disservice when you say something like that, because you never know if that thing is gonna come along and be right, but I'd be lying if I said that that wasn't true.

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.