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" I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it. "
Use
Old-Fashioned
Computer
" I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple. "
Director
Simple
Working
" I tend to write it and then let go emotionally. "
Then
Let Go
Emotionally
" I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot. "
Think
Simple
People
" I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting. "
Think
Like
Writing
" My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French. "
Early
Place
People
" The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out. "
Audience
Job
Involved
" The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music. "
Different
World
Music
" To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette. "
Me
Colors
Desk
" When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that. "
Music
Done
Pencil
" You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes. "
Eyes
Audience
Experience
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