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I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.
- Thomas Newman
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#My Life
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When you see an early edited version, you're not sure what it is. The movie is getting on its wobbly legs.
- Thomas Newman
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I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.
- Thomas Newman
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'The Starship Avalon' is perpetually mobile. The music is designed to give the impression of endless sleep and endless journey with a significant interruption that guides the story that follows. It's color and pulse followed by great size.
- Thomas Newman
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The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of 'Mary Poppins' was impossible to ignore. The fact that it could provide emotional content in relief of the struggles that the Sherman brothers and Walt Disney endured was reason enough to take on the challenge.
- Thomas Newman
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In general, I probably have a shy nature. So the idea of poking out with my music is probably not something I want to do.
- Thomas Newman
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'Sugarcoat the Galaxy' is inspired by color-inflected photographs of galaxies. It likens sounds to spun sugar and confection, wrapping static harmonies inside energy and pace.
- Thomas Newman
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There were moments in 'Malala,' I felt very moved by the storytelling, and 'pleased' would be the wrong word, but the music could be part of what moved me: that I was trying to contribute to something that was meaningful outside the realm of creative work but just more in terms of the world.
- Thomas Newman
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It's always easy, I think, to raise the importance of a scene through the addition of music. But it's very awkward to end it unless there's a door slam or a gunshot or something that just takes you right out of it.
- Thomas Newman
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My uncle Lionel ended up being a bug guy at 20th Century Fox, which my father had been - and, of course, my cousin Randy - you know, one of the great American songwriters. It was a storied family and, in many ways, very tough to emerge from.
- Thomas Newman
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#Family
#Father
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#Tough
The thing about the creative process is it's so chaotic.
- Thomas Newman
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#Thing
After the music that had been created by my family, I thought there was no way I could stack up.
- Thomas Newman
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#Thought
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#Way
If you fail, fail fast enough so you can regroup and do it better.
- Thomas Newman
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#Enough
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I think I compose as a listener: improvising and listening back excites me because I get to ideas that never would have occurred. Then I bring in the computers and samplers... and I begin to loop and process and change them.
- Thomas Newman
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#Computers
#Ideas
#Me
#Process
There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.
- Thomas Newman
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#Focus
#Nothing
#Sense
#Your
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