James Horner
James Horner
James Roy Hornerwas an American composer, conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth14 August 1953
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
created hours music
The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.
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The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
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I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.
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To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
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When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.