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Danny Elfman

"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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"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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"I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks."

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"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value."

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"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."

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"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors."

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"I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films."

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"I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it."

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"I hate the word wholesome."

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"I have no television - I hate it."

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"I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone."

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"I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off."

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Danny Elfman
"I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound."

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Danny Elfman
"In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here."

Music

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Danny Elfman
"I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony."

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Danny Elfman
"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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Danny Elfman
"It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do."

Hate

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Danny Elfman
"Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction."

First

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Danny Elfman
"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

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Danny Elfman
"I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium."

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Danny Elfman
"I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun."

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Danny Elfman
"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."

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