Danny Elfman quote: "I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium."

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
DANNY ELFMAN

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the ...
DANNY ELFMAN

So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or so...
DANNY ELFMAN

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not q...
DANNY ELFMAN

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I wou...
DANNY ELFMAN

Like 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' writing songs for 'Corpse Bride' was a real treat. Tim's visu...
DANNY ELFMAN

And the alcoholic bastard waved his finger at me, His voice was filled with evangelical glee, Sippin...
DANNY ELFMAN

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortun...
DANNY ELFMAN

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way t...
DANNY ELFMAN

It was very schizophrenic,
DANNY ELFMAN

[Like the recent Burton blockbuster] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, ... Corpse Bride.
DANNY ELFMAN

I really didn't intend to sing it, ... It happened like it did with the songs from 'Charlie' and 'Ni...
DANNY ELFMAN

He looks like Sammy Davis Jr. -- but he's a skeleton,
DANNY ELFMAN

That little demo I wrote became the main title of the motion picture, and that started everything.
DANNY ELFMAN

My education in film music came from watching tons of films,
DANNY ELFMAN

At the end of the day, Tim said, 'Look, can you just do this vocal?' I did not write it for myself, ...
DANNY ELFMAN

It's convenient in a way, because you don't have to answer many questions: People say, 'Man, how are...
DANNY ELFMAN

I coached her through her singing debut, and she did great, ... And, she sings with a spider and wor...
DANNY ELFMAN

It was a very sweet deal, ... But not for us. For them.
DANNY ELFMAN

Like 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' writing songs for 'Corpse Bride' was a real treat. Tim's visu...
DANNY ELFMAN

It was a ragtag street ensemble, ... Literally, we'd pass the hat. I learned how to breathe fire. I ...
DANNY ELFMAN

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
DANNY ELFMAN

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sa...
DANNY ELFMAN

I try to keep myself as blank and as unprepared as possible until that moment, ... I have to get my ...
DANNY ELFMAN

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ...
DANNY ELFMAN

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a...
DANNY ELFMAN

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it'...
DANNY ELFMAN

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to...
DANNY ELFMAN

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.
DANNY ELFMAN

I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished re...
DANNY ELFMAN

I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I&#...
DANNY ELFMAN

Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes...
DANNY ELFMAN

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that i...
DANNY ELFMAN

It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of...
DANNY ELFMAN

It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimen...
DANNY ELFMAN

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, b...
DANNY ELFMAN

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, witho...
DANNY ELFMAN

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish t...
DANNY ELFMAN

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary t...
DANNY ELFMAN

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.
DANNY ELFMAN

I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the ...
DANNY ELFMAN

I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back...
DANNY ELFMAN

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning,...
DANNY ELFMAN

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants...
DANNY ELFMAN

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.
JENNA ELFMAN

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, a...
JENNA ELFMAN

Sting! I mean, come on - whoe doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeath, you have respect for S...
JENNA ELFMAN

No. It's on films I've done and such. And I was a dancer and I performed music videos. It's just, I'...
JENNA ELFMAN

That's what I find is just the work ethic of some of my peers I've noticed, and it has to do with ho...
JENNA ELFMAN

A lot of my peers that I've worked with (not on this show) are not on time and think it's absolutely...
JENNA ELFMAN

I've never had the opportunity to play these kinds of scenes or tell this kind of a story. [Filming]...
JENNA ELFMAN

We had this conversation, and everybody in the room just disappeared. We were talking about our favo...
JENNA ELFMAN

It's a cliche, but just being nominated is cool.
JENNA ELFMAN

I'm not some big party chick, so it's not like I have to keep up my big social life.
JENNA ELFMAN

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is th...
JENNA ELFMAN

The girls showed a lot of heart. They really stepped up the pressure on them (D-A) in the fourth qua...
DALE ELFMAN

Anytime you get second chances it is huge.
DALE ELFMAN

The girls came out and got us some easy points on turnovers.
DALE ELFMAN

It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember fe...
JENNA ELFMAN

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audie...
JENNA ELFMAN

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high ...
DANNY GLOVER

People come into your lives who you have a good time with, and time goes by and you still have a goo...
DANNY DEVITO

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
DANNY BONADUCE

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source...
DANNY MEYER

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone e...
DANNY DEVITO

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sh...
DANNY MEYER

Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
DANNY MEYER

Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.
DANNY MEYER

It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values...
DANNY MEYER

In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-y...
DANNY MEYER

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shu...
DANNY DEVITO

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
DANNY MCGOORTY

I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to ...
DANNY BAUTISTA

I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - ...
DANNY DEVITO

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean...
DANNY BOYLE

make an agreement to exercise mutual control over each other. The unspoken pact between them is, “...
DANNY SILK

Half this game is 90% mental.
DANNY OZARK

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
DANNY DEVITO

One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
DANNY MCGOORTY

Mr. and Mrs. McCartney are vegans, and what they stand for is the complete elimination of the killin...
DANNY WILLIAMS

If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something...
DANNY PARADISE

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat...
DANNY GLOVER

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.
DANNY DEVITO

Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate t...
DANNY MEYER

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and n...
DANNY STRONG

I love action films. I don't really like drama.
DANNY TREJO

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
DANNY KAYE

I am a wife-made man.
DANNY KAYE

There is a danger in democracy itself.
DANNY KAYE

When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films...
DANNY KAYE

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and...
DANNY KAYE

I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious...
DANNY KAYE

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.
DANNY KAYE

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
DANNY KAYE

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
DANNY KAYE

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
DANNY KAYE

The part of capitalism that doesn't work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way th...
DANNY MEYER

There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. ...
DANNY MEYER

It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed...
DANNY MEYER

The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospi...
DANNY MEYER

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. L...
DANNY GLOVER

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
DANNY BOYLE

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
DANNY MEYER

A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or ...
DANNY MEYER

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, ...
DANNY DEVITO

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful tha...
DANNY BOYLE

Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.
DANNY MEYER

New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its mone...
DANNY GLOVER

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
DANNY GLOVER

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Chri...
DANNY MEYER

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doi...
DANNY DEVITO

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semes...
DANNY GLOVER

Smart Technology is making us stupid.
DANNY MEKIć

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried someth...
DANNY AIELLO

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
DANNY BOYLE

The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot ...
DANNY MEYER

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.
DANNY MCBRIDE

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.
DANNY BONADUCE

'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes i...
DANNY MEYER

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. Tha...
DANNY MASTERSON

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.
DANNY BROWN

I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphe...
DANNY MASTERSON

I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and li...
DANNY PINO

I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing t...
DANNY PUDI

It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, ...
DANNY MCBRIDE

Is Amazon truly the best online buying experience? Absolutely not. Is eBay the best platform for auc...
DANNY RIMER

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to sp...
DANNY MCBRIDE

A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. ...
DANNY WALLACE

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.
DANNY KAYE

My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that e...
DANNY MEYER

When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an arti...
DANNY MCBRIDE

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're...
DANNY DEVITO

Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best ...
DANNY MCBRIDE

At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but i...
DANNY MEYER

In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts,...
DANNY MEYER

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.
DANNY SUGERMAN

I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that...
DANNY DYER

Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is goi...
DANNY MEYER

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.
DANNY AIELLO

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us w...
DANNY HUSTON

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.
DANNY DEVITO

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated ...
DANNY MASTERSON

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I n...
DANNY AIELLO

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.
DANNY PUDI

You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature int...
DANNY BROWN

I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of in...
DANNY PINO

In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgo...
DANNY MCBRIDE

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and out...
DANNY WALLACE

London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.
DANNY MEYER

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.
DANNY AIELLO

A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they ...
DANNY MEYER

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know ...
DANNY DANON

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible....
DANNY DEVITO

I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to m...
DANNY PINO

At my restaurants, we have training drills before every meal. We talk about what we did yesterday th...
DANNY MEYER

Gramercy Tavern appeared on the cover of New York Magazine the day we opened, and it was five deep a...
DANNY MEYER

It is a market with great potential.
DANNY ARENDT

Sales to the Arab market take place two or three times a year, and they sometimes, but not always, p...
DANNY ARENDT

Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts.
DANNY ARENDT

If Apex goes to a new fair in the region, we are interested in participating.
DANNY ARENDT

I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around and make...
DANNY ARDOIN

Fogg was great, and Zach backed it up with a stellar performance himself. It was nice to have those ...
DANNY ARDOIN

I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching...
DANNY ARDOIN

He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad.
DANNY ARDOIN

I'm just trying to make solid contact right there, and I got a slider over the plate and put the bar...
DANNY ARDOIN

That's just one to throw away in the trash, pick it up tomorrow and play solid baseball.
DANNY ARDOIN

(Brandon) Webb is a premier, No. 1 (starter) in this league. I felt I put some good at-bats against ...
DANNY ARDOIN

I'm putting myself and my team in a position where we have a chance. Last year at this time, somethi...
DANNY ARDOIN

It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what h...
DANNY ARDOIN

I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried to ho...
DANNY ARDOIN

I told them, in that situation you can't think about making or missing. You've just got to attack th...
DANNY ANDERSON

You can't change who you are. You gotta make adjustments, and we're a team that can play at multiple...
DANNY ANDERSON

We had a lot of kids that had to change roles. There were growing pains. This season is about the gr...
DANNY ANDERSON

In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as ...
DANNY ANDERSON

Do I want one (a state title)? Dang right, but I'm not gonna sell my soul for one. I'm a purist. The...
DANNY ANDERSON

He'll be with us when training camp opens.
DANNY AINGE

Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in...
DANNY AINGE

I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.
DANNY AINGE

Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc...
DANNY AINGE

I think that Doc is a guy that can be with the same group for a long time because I feel that the yo...
DANNY AINGE

I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get u...
DANNY AINGE

We're going to wait [to decide on team discipline]. And that's an internal matter we'll never discus...
DANNY AINGE

With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night...
DANNY AINGE

He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.
DANNY AINGE

I think we can be more efficient in some ways, especially offensively. Wally is such an efficient pl...
DANNY AINGE

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.
DANNY AIELLO

I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them ...
DANNY AIELLO

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
DANNY AIELLO

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never...
DANNY AIELLO

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
DANNY AIELLO

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing a...
DANNY AIELLO

For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of chara...
DANNY AIELLO

When I saw the script, ... I called them that night. I liked it that much. I love this character, I ...
DANNY AIELLO

I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, but my...
DANNY AIELLO

(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe.
DANNY AIELLO

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay...
DANNY DEVITO

It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on ...
DANNY MEYER

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
DANNY KAYE

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
DANNY KAYE

What you've done is effectively cut off any discourse or dialogue. If we're only going to govern by ...
DANNY GLOVER

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

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I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

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