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I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
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Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
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I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
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I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
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Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
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The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.
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New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
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I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
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I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
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Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
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Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
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Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
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Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
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