Zitat des Tages von James Horner:
The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
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.
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.
I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.
I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.
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.
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.