#or

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#because #call #does #effective #end

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#bit #difficult #establish #go #going

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#flies #heart #judgment #out #pains

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie! ↗

— Danny Elfman

#director #feel #feel good #going #good

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#ends #way #world

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #city #conventional #european #extreme

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. ↗

— George Eliot

#before #bray #down #good #may

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#experienced #explain #light #more #never

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#character #diminished #importance #insignificance #knowledge