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"So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses."
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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
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"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
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"It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance."
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"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
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"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
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"Love is a dance."
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"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
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"So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses."
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"I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often."
Money
"I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony."
Desire
"You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier."
Opinion
"That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening."
Fact
"So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow."
Company
"I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging."
Work
"Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns."
Love
"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."
Love
"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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