As long as we’re on the subject of sound, I found this one:
“IT IS INTERESTING TO OBSERVE THAT SOUND ALWAYS DOMINATES PICTURE… if you play happy music [while driving around in your car], even some fairly squalid and dispiriting surroundings appear more cheerful. If you play sad or ominous music, the most agreeable vistas assume a sinister aspect. It is this fact that makes film music so important, for no matter what the cinematographers photograph, nor how skillfully such images are edited, it is an inescapable fact that the music which accompanies them will dominate and, in the end, dictate the ambience.”
Writer/Director Nicholas Meyer, in the liner notes of The Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology. 20th Century Fox Film Scores, Arista Records, Inc., ©1993 Lucasfilm, Ltd.
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John Ludwick
