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"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."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."

"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark."

"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then."

"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter."

"Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living."
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