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Humor is a universal language.
I just write from dawn to dusk.
Music is never inherently funny!
I try to move people emotionally.
My music lives because of real players.
I never thought the orchestra should be big.
Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.
Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.
Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.
You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.
Certainly 'Zero Dark Thirty' is not for children!
Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
Charts are a leading indicator of fundamental analysis
I've never been into monster movies, not my cup of tea.
Touch me again, and I’ll end you… in a non-criminal way.
In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.
What level of crazy is too much for you? I'm just curious.
What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.
When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.
It's not easy to write an understated score over a loud one.
Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.
In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.
The great directors, I've learned, have a great sense of rhythm.
Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words.
Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?
In 'Secret Life of Pets,' it's a huge orchestra - really, really big.
I always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.
French horn can be very epic, and at the same time, very dark and moving.
If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.
You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.
For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background.
There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience.
'The Homesman' is a really interesting movie that Tommy Lee Jones directed.
If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.
I played the piccolo in the 'Ides of March' and 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' score.
We will always hear the vibrations of Ennio's music and feel it in our hearts.
I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.
A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.
My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.
Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.
When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.
The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly.
I've always been a film lover - that's why I've always wanted to write music for films.
The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.
The goal is to make the music really a part of the skin of the film, and not be detached.
All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.
To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.
I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.
I think great scores have to be noticed, but they're wrong when you hear the music come in.