- I think Jerry Goldsmith said it well that what we as film composers do is lay down the backdrop for drama. Music is a real mystery -- something spiritual that speaks to somewhere deep inside us all. It communicates in a way nothing else does: no dialogue, no acting, no sound effects. I can't put my finger on it, but when I get to the third movement of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" I almost feel as if I'm being lifted out of my body. It's almost an experience of going beyond myself, taking me someplace else, and nothing else can do that for me. Music in film talks to people that way.
- It's hard to get bored with a movie when your own music is playing in it. Each time, you hear something different. There are cues you'll hear on the album that you won't even recognize in the film because of sound effects. I'm too close to the music. I know all the subtleties and, yes, most of them are not in the film.
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