“Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.” NextCenturyDirectorsScoreConsistentDucksCricketersBollywood Author:Sunny Deol
“I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director and to the source material. It's really important.” WantImportantMaterialsSourceDirectorsConnectionsOriginalsScoreComposer Author:Howard Shore
“I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of getting immersed in his world. Towards the end of the Inglourious Basterds press tour I was in Japan. Spaghetti Westerns are really popular there, so I picked up a bunch of soundtracks and spent my day off listening to all these scores. And all of a sudden the opening scene just came to me.” WorldWritingKindBookEndsFilmListeningSceneDirectorsCriticismOriginalsPressesBunchOpeningScoreJapanSoundtracksDays OffSpaghettiReally PopularFilm CriticismDjango Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.” WantYearsWellsSaidIdeasPlayFilmHeardDirectorsTwentiesArtisticScoreJumpingAnthemAustinStagingFilm Scores Author:Jeff Britting