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To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

~James Horner

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The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.

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I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

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I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.

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The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.

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You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.

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I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.

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I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

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My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

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I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: August 14th, 1953

Died: June 22nd, 2015

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