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My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.
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I work on the types of movies that I would have loved watching as a kid.
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Without my experiences on the likes of 'Lost' and 'Alias,' I don't know if I would have survived 'Rogue One.'
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In 'Ratatouille,' there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy's personality: the creative side: the chef, and the 'thief' side: his nature as a mouse.
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When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.
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'Lost,' at its core, is a science-fiction show. Live music helps lend an air of legitimacy to this otherwise crazy storyline. It makes a big difference.
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I like to think that I probably have written more World War II music than anyone on the planet after all the 'Medal of Honors' and 'Call of Duties.'
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Many film scores try to force an emotion into a story that inherently is not there in the first place.
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Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?
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I was obsessed with 'The Twilight Zone' as a kid, and one of those things I didn't realize until I was in college was that I had been listening to Bernard Herrmann all my life.
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Hopefully, by the time I do a project, I already have a true understanding and love of what I'm about to do because if I don't, I'm not going to work on that project. I really want to have those connections so I can be truthful to the emotional aspect of what I have to deliver for the story.
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As a kid, I would listen to anything that had a live orchestra or ensemble playing, so that covered everything from show tunes to eclectic jazz things to film soundtracks to classical music. They're all inspiring to me.
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I watched 'Land of the Lost' as a kid, you know, incessantly. I loved it. Me and my brother watched it every Saturday.
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I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based on what I was hearing.
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I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.
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My dad had a great record collection, which included some music from Mexico, and so I always loved it.
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I was never one of those people that would just take jobs that were thrown at me.
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My parents loved music, but they weren't musicians. So my musical training as a young kid was limited to piano lessons. I was not the best student; I was awful, never practiced. But I was always interested in just messing around on the piano.
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Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.
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I always loved movies like 'King Kong' and 'Planet of the Apes,' monster movies, Ray Harryhausen films, all of that stuff. I always loved the music in them, too.
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My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.
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I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a day job at Universal publicity department, then moved over to Disney publicity department. So I had this day job, and at night I would study music.
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I like live musicians and personally orchestrate about 80 to 90% of all my scores.
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On 'Lost,' I write a score and orchestrate it on days one and two; I record it on day three. In animation and film and videogames, you have a little more time to work things through.
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There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.
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I lived in New York City for six years, and I was always amazed at how diverse everything was.
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I loved 'Planet of the Apes,' and I loved 'Star Wars,' and I loved 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' and to me, the goal always was to work on something as cool as that.
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There was a time that I did 'Up,' 'Star Trek' and 'Land of the Lost,' and I was working on 'Lost,' at the same time, and that was really hard.
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One of the things I was never thrilled about with 'Medal of Honor' was that it was non-stop music.
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I have tons of drawings of 'Star Wars,' whether it be stormtroopers, Darth Vader, Star Destroyers, or the whole thing.
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It wasn't until high school that I actually started writing. I was in a lot of the school plays and musicals, and there was a lot of down time during rehearsals. I would go into the orchestra pit and mess around on the grand piano.
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Scoring animated films, I have the exact same approach and philosophy as I do for a live action. It's all story- and character-driven. I don't care if it's a mouse or Tom Cruise.
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Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.
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I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.
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I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era.
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When I was 10, I had a group of friends that I used to love to make movies with, and we made them growing up; we did it all through high school.
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I think Mozart, with all his impatience in writing, would have loved it. It would have allowed him to write twice as much. He would have loved a Mac. If he'd had a laptop, he would have been unstoppable.
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