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 Read Quote
The music’s job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out. James Horner Read Quote
I think very abstractly when I’m writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting. James Horner Read Quote
I’m used to working with the director and producer, and that’s my relationship. It’s very simple. James Horner Read Quote
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. James Horner Read Quote
I don’t use a computer in writing at all. I’m sort of old-fashioned about it. James Horner Read Quote
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. James Horner Read Quote
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. James Horner Read Quote
