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"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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"Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation."
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"Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking."
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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
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"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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"With everything there is what to do."
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"Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more.Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest;The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best."
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"You don't scale a mountain with your mouth, but with your feet."
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"Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it."
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"I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony."
Desire
"In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film."
Film
"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."
Right
"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
"Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call."
Music
"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."
Dance
"I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time."
Time
"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."
Action
"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."
Beauty
"I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun."
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