If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.
Interpretation
A film composer's role is to use music to enhance and narrate the character's journey in film.
This quote by Ludwig Goransson highlights the integral role of music in film as a storytelling medium. It emphasizes that a film composer is not just creating background music, but rather crafting a sonic narrative that supports and reflects the emotions and developments of the characters, allowing the audience to feel more deeply connected to the story being told.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of music in film during a film festival.
One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
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