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" Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero. "
Hero
Radical
Old
" Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. "
Talent
Friday
Music
" Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt. "
Art
Fear
Music
" I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness. "
Two
Better
Like
" I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. "
Music
Write
People
" My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan. "
Kazan
Film
Experience
" There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved. "
You
Involved
Without
" There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music. "
Who
Music
Few
" The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s. "
Arts
Two
Society
" Today it's not culture; it's box office. "
Box
Culture
Office
" When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years. "
Union
Go
Years
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