Quotes by Howard Shore

Howard Shore

I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to feature certain paths in a certain way, whether there was dialogue in a scene, or whether there was no dialogue and music was telling the story at that point.

Feelings

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I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don’t feel I’m really right to tell that particular story.

Able

Stories

Writing

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That’s always an interesting part of it with me.

Film

Interesting

Research

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

Office

Tuxedos

Wife

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I try to create music that’s honest and true to my heart for the story.

Book

Heart

Writing

I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They’re interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.

Epic

Interesting

Symphony

I’ve been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I’ve been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

Class

Long

Writing

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Emotional

Feelings

Want

Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

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Night

Summer

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

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Quotes by Howard Shore

Howard Shore

I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to feature certain paths in a certain way, whether there was dialogue in a scene, or whether there was no dialogue and music was telling the story at that point.

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don’t feel I’m really right to tell that particular story.

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That’s always an interesting part of it with me.

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I try to create music that’s honest and true to my heart for the story.

I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They’re interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.

I’ve been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I’ve been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

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