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I dislike cats. I like horses...

I dislike cats. I like horses, some monkeys, and sweet dogs that aren't too aggressive. I used to have a wonderful, big cat, and one day I came into the kitchen and it was on the table, ruining all the food we were about to eat. I was so annoyed that I took it to a friend's house in the country.

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Bernard Herrmann used to writ...

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

Ennio Morricone 9 quotes

You can see my decision as ei...

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

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It had a very good arrangemen...

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

Ennio Morricone 9 quotes

In music, what is very import...

In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.

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If you scroll through all the...

If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.

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De Palma is delicious! He res...

De Palma is delicious! He respects music; he respects composers. For 'The Untouchables,' everything I proposed to him was fine, but then he wanted a piece that I didn't like at all, and of course we didn't have an agreement on that. It was something I didn't want to write - a triumphal piece for the police.

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I like composing music, but I...

I like composing music, but I love being with my family.

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I never watch the dailies. Wh...

I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.

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I can't be enthusiastic as so...

I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it has to be listened to, played by the instruments, and then heard by the director, but most importantly, it has to be listened to by the public.

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We live in a modern world, an...

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

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I really like conducting my m...

I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.

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Music needs room to breathe. ...

Music needs room to breathe.

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I don't know the names of any...

I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.

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I come from a background of e...

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

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It could have been extremely ...

It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.

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I want people to know about a...

I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.

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I have to see a definitive cu...

I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.

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There are some directors who ...

There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.

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There was a theft! But, of co...

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

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