Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
Music is so crucial to every film, I think.
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
Film music has a great history of composers and performers.
The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.
I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again.
Usually, when I see films that don't have any score attached to them, I think they're beautiful. I love just the naked sound of the voice. That's already music.