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"I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on."
Time
"I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."
Cinema
"The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that."
Music
"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."
Actor
"One of the things I love about cinema is the range."
Love
"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."
Life
"You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time."
Time
"I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker."
Time
"When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer."
Music
"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."
Art
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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Personal Development
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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Personal Development
"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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Personal Development
"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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Personal Development
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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Personal Development
"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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