Likes France. Likes Italy.

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…But if you hear, say, that Hans Zimmer did the soundtrack to Dune, are you excited, you’ll go see it and hear it, or it’s a peripheral interest for you? I’m almost always very frustrated by the low level of inspiration in film composing. I think that film composers market themselves and basically give directors what they want. And a lot of the taste that even the greatest directors — people like Steven Spielberg — have is just very sentimental and, to me, rather tacky, which is why most of the film score music I like comes from France or Italy, not America. These days now, a lot of films don’t even have a composer. They have a music consultant. You’ll get a film, let’s say a Coen brothers film, which would be a great film, but the music comes from all different sources, maybe three or four different pop artists or whatever. Is it intimidating to conduct Philip Glass in front of Philip Glass?…

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