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Danny Elfman

"You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff."

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"You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff."

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Akshay Vasu

"You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good."

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Akshay Vasu

"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."

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Akshay Vasu

"When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there."

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Akshay Vasu

"Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left."

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Akshay Vasu

"I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel it."

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Akshay Vasu

"Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!"

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Akshay Vasu

"You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might."

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Akshay Vasu

"Your gut is always right."

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Akshay Vasu

"I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia."

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Akshay Vasu

"That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did."

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Danny Elfman
"I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound."

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Danny Elfman
"It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am."

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Danny Elfman
"In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here."

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Danny Elfman
"I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer."

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Danny Elfman
"I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony."

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Danny Elfman
"The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult."

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Danny Elfman
"The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action."

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Danny Elfman
"Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room."

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Danny Elfman
"You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff."

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Danny Elfman
"It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do."

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