Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.
When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many.
A nation creates music. The composer only arranges it.
Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back...
I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie.
Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the music will intrude or waste something, that a composer will overwhelm the story.
I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.
To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.
When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a team of artists. So I think like a filmmaker more than a composer.
I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
