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"I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine."
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"There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you."

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"I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?"

"I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine."
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