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On Conducting
"My greatest joy is always the first day of the recording session. All of the brain busting, back-straining labor of writing the music is behind one and all of the difficulties of dubbing and assimilation of the score to the soundtrack has yet to happen and is ahead of you. There's a moment of exhilaration and pure pleasure in just performing the music and hearing the orchestra play it. That's the high point I think for most composers."
谈指挥
在录音的第一天，我总是能获得最大的乐趣。整个大脑好像都要胀裂了，因为在为电影原声配乐、合成的过程中，种种困难将会出现在你面前，接下来就是超负荷的辛苦写作。不过，在这当中也会有令人兴奋、非常享受的时候，就是在表现和倾听管弦乐队演奏音乐的时候。
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On Success
"We can't anticipate success in the things that we do. You may write a sentence that will become chiseled in marble on someone's library, but you don't know that when you write it. And that's usually not the best motivation behind that kind of creative activity anyway. I think if it's fantastic and fun and adventurous, that gives us our best time, and very often will give us our best result also. These films, and the STAR WARS films, all of us working on those just regard them as something that would be fun for kids to see on Saturday morning and none of us, including George Lucas himself, ever had any anticipation that they would become as successful as they have become. I think that's after the fact, and if any of us could predict what ingredients or what series of mental attitudes could be strung together to create that kind of success, if we could do it on order, we'd all be multi-billionaires. But you can't. It's more elusive and more subtle, and as a consequence more interesting and even more fun."
谈成功
人不能预见自已做的事是否成功。也许你写下的一句话将来会成为雕刻品被某人收藏在他的书房。但是你不可能知道具体什么时候你该去写它。为了被人收藏才去从事创造性的活动，这可不是最好的动机。我觉得如果一件事本身非常奇妙，有趣，而且富有挑战，我们去做的时候才就会有最佳的状态，而且通常这么做都会带来最佳的结果。在完成的所有电影中，包括星球大战系列，我们工作的心态就像孩子们在周六早上那样，觉得在周末的两天中一定会充满乐趣。我们中没有一人，包括乔治卢卡斯，在当时就预料到会有那么大的成功。我觉得获得成功是工作完成以后的事了，如果说我们当中有人能预知种种，或者把各种心态合拢在一起去促成这类成功，如果我们做事按这样，早就都是亿万富翁了。但事实不是这样，成功其实很难把握，也很微妙，但是作为一种结果，获得成功是很有趣，很愉快的。
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On Steven Spielberg
"He is always close at hand, in a very positive way, musically: He's extremely fond of music. His greatest pleasure, he tells me ... and I believe him ... is the time when he can come sit on the stage and listen to the orchestra play as we accompany his film. In the weeks that precede that, when I'm writing, he likes to come into my office and hear me playing what I'm doing on the piano. He'll sit and always enjoy it, and he's very helpful, particularly in areas of rhythm. When I'm looking at a film on a moviola I'll be plotting out tempos and rhythmic approaches and he's very sensitive to whether this is faster than that ... or that is slower than this. He's a very good musician in his natural impulses, and always contributes in an interested and very wholesome way. It's wonderful to be around someone who loves music as much as he does."
谈史蒂芬 斯皮尔博格
他总是双手交叉，保持一种自信的和谐的姿势。他酷爱音乐，他告诉我他最大的享受就是坐在舞台下面倾听管弦乐队演奏我们为他影片的配乐。对此我深信不疑。就在我开始写作的几周以及之前，他总喜欢到我的办公室里来听我用钢琴作曲，他会坐下来，非常投入的听。而且在某些节奏方面能给我不少帮助。我划分出速度和韵律来，听过他就能辨出这个比那个快了一点儿，那个比这个又慢了一点儿。他对节奏的快慢特别明感，是个本能的音乐家。 从他那里始终能得到全情投入并且有益的支持。能和像他一样爱音乐的人在一起真是太棒了。
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