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John Barry Was My Hero When I Was About 13. His Scores To The James Bond Movies Were The Scores Of My Life Back Then.

Hopefully Each Film Can Be Given A Musical Voice Of Its Own, Which Is Not To Say That The Instrumentation Is Always Unique, But That The Relationship Between The Sound And The Image Is Unique.

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.

Carefully Execute Every Instruction Given To You By The Director, Producer, And Studio. But That Would Be A Life Not Worth Living.

On Being John Malkovich And The Cinema Of The Absurd, I Do Enjoy It. I Wish There Were More Like It. The Very Fact That There Can't Be More Like It Is One Of The Reasons It's Admirable.