The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints, this is where we have the problem.
Interpretation
A director's ability to honor a musical composition is hindered by financial limitations.
Ennio Morricone emphasizes the critical role of the director in interpreting and executing a musical score, suggesting that without the authority to make creative decisions, the director may struggle to deliver a compelling artistic vision. When budgetary constraints dictate the possibilities, the artistic quality and integrity of the music can suffer, leading to a disconnect between the score and the directed performance.
In practice
During a film industry panel discussing the challenges of independent filmmaking.
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.
When I have to score a film, I watch the movie first and then start thinking about it. And from that moment on, it is as if I were pregnant. I then have to deliver the child, so from that moment on, I think always about the music - even when I go to the grocery store, I think about it.
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.
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.
I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.
Everyone has to die. I'm not particularly scared about it. What really frightens me is that if I go before my wife, I will leave her alone, and vice versa. The ideal would be to die together.
If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.
The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.
Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
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