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One of the major aspects of film composing is that it’s not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.
Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores.
To me, music is music, and it’s not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.
I don’t really have a preferred genre. It’s more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.
I have to admit that I really don’t care for horror movies all that much. I think mainly just because I’m a cheap scare.
I like the scene in the first ‘Scream’ movie where Sidney gets up, and dusk is falling, and she’s looking out at the hills of Santa Rosa, there where it was filmed, and that’s where you sort of hear her theme being played out. I always liked that moment because, to me, it became more than just a horror movie.
‘The Homesman’ is my third collaboration with Tommy Lee Jones as director, and each time, I am aware of how fortunate I am.
If it’s a real bad score, then it can ruin a movie for me, or, at least, it will draw a lot of my attention to the score.
I usually start from the most general to the more specific. I’ll get an emotional overview for the film as a whole, trying to pinpoint what the musical identity is and come up with thematic ideas – any ideas that identify as succinctly as possible what the film is.
‘The Homesman’ is a really interesting movie that Tommy Lee Jones directed.
Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.
I think the only thing that I really haven’t done much in, and I haven’t felt too attracted to, is romantic comedies.
I am inspired just by the way a scene can be interpreted by the actors. It can make a huge difference on the type of music that you write. It’s best for me if I don’t work at all on a project until the movie is shot and I have some sort of edit in front of me.
I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn’t really have any orchestral pieces for film.
