” With a lot of action scores, you’re competing with a lot of noise. Say there’s a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a lot of Hollywood-style percussion or brass, because that’s the only thing that will cut through. “
” In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor. “
” A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be. “
” My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room, that started me off on instruments, and I’ve done nothing else ever since. “
” The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me. “
” For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit. “
” Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don’t think it’s fair to ever judge what is proper and what’s not. “
” The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music. “
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