American - Musician | May 29, 1953 -
It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.
Danny Elfman
HateStupidJustLikeMakingSounds
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
MyselfDesireWriteSeeBurning
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.
BeautyWaterSeedPlantYouGo
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.
WorkTimeBeginningEndShortTheme
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.
MusicMeThinkUnderstandingKind
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.
MeTryingKindDirectorOutHead
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.
DanceGameThinkExerciseYouWrite
I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.
FunCreatingPatternsThingsLike
I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.
BetterLookBackKnowNowThree
Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.
MeTreatDoingDrawingBackWay
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.
LiveTimeI CanKindSoundLittle
I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.
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