I tend to avoid interviews, I don’t have a publicist and fear of failure is still very much alive in my personal life. James Newton Howard Read Quote
Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself. James Newton Howard Read Quote
What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist. And then you write from their perspective. James Newton Howard Read Quote
Becoming a father allowed me to become a much better composer, because it allowed me to have tremendous patience. I have much more tolerance for opposing opinions, short attention spans, changes of heart. And faith in the future. James Newton Howard Read Quote
I’ve been lucky to have been given opportunities in different genres. And most of the time I’ve felt that the exploration, the composing, the collaboration, was a move forward. James Newton Howard Read Quote
It’s easy for me to write a quasi-virtuosic orchestral score. What is harder is to do that and say, all right, that works, but how else can you do it? James Newton Howard Read Quote
That’s what keeps me going: those moments of solving a problem, of what happens to a movie when the right music is added – and what happens to the music when the movie’s working with it. James Newton Howard Read Quote
The trick with ‘Nutcracker’ was figure out how much, and where, we could the Tchaikovsky – using as much as we possibly could and still support the storytelling. James Newton Howard Read Quote
Music can help uncover that tone that’s in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it’s very plain to see, sometimes it’s not. James Newton Howard Read Quote
