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All Quotes by author - Thomas Newman

" After the music that had been created by my family, I thought there was no way I could stack up. "

" For me, like anyone, you want to go into a movie and have an enjoyable time where you're just involved. "

" I didn't listen to any of my dad's scores. "

" If you fail, fail fast enough so you can regroup and do it better. "

" I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out. "

" I just want my music to involve an audience in what's taking place onscreen. "

" I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano. "

" I like being the underdog. "

" In animation, action is changing so quickly that there's really not a lot of suspended moments. "

" In live action, sometimes a mood or a feeling can go on for quite a while. Animation is a lot more effort. There are a lot more notes. "

" I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them. "

" It's a practical matter. If you're useful to others, you'll be hired. "

" Losing makes you strong. "

" Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it. "

" Part of me wants to stay hidden; it's no coincidence that I write movie music. It lets me stay in the shadows, in a way, but still lets me be expressive. "

" 'Sugarcoat the Galaxy' is inspired by color-inflected photographs of galaxies. It likens sounds to spun sugar and confection, wrapping static harmonies inside energy and pace. "

" The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience. "

" The golden age of Hollywood was the conceit of the movie and the style of the movie. "

" The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of 'Mary Poppins' was impossible to ignore. The fact that it could provide emotional content in relief of the struggles that the Sherman brothers and Walt Disney endured was reason enough to take on the challenge. "

" There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus. "

" There was no saying I could ever step in and do what John does, because it'd be really hard to be John Williams. "

" There were certain things in 'Nemo' - just this low hum of ocean and watery sound - that was enough to imply water, as opposed to restating it over and over again. "

" When you see an early edited version, you're not sure what it is. The movie is getting on its wobbly legs. "

" With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that. "

" You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You're a part of that experience. "

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