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 t… - Howard Shore
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 t…
- Howard Shore
The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the w… - Howard Shore
The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the w…
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra. - Howard Shore
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical mu… - Howard Shore
I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical mu…
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 partic… - Howard Shore
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 partic…
You don't always want to be using the music in a way to express ideas inherent that are on the screen. You might want to work more around the fringes… - Howard Shore
You don't always want to be using the music in a way to express ideas inherent that are on the screen. You might want to work more around the fringes…
Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film. - Howard Shore
Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.
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 amou… - Howard Shore
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 amou…
To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-a… - Howard Shore
To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-a…
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