I think something substantial will pass out of the House at some point during this term.
I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.
Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.
The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.
The Hellish and dismal cloud of. . . Coal. . . perpetually imminent over (London). . . that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist. . . corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,. . . Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.
I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.
Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.