I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
I think being a little nuts is helpful.
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
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