I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.
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It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.
I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.
When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
When you make a movie with plenty of money, there is no drama.
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
I need drama in my life to keep making music.
Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.