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But the orchestra was playing
to drive the energy

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to people to go to discover
where the criminal is.

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Driving through the point where
the camera goes through the door.

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And I continued the music
when the camera

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panned to the window, playing it more.
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He said, "If you stop the music
when the camera pans to the window

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the silence will tell us
that it's empty - he's gone,

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more emphatically, more powerfully
than any musical phrase."

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And, of course, just the absence
of music at that point...

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It was a wonderful lesson in where
to arrange the parts of the music

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in any film, which we call
"spotting," incidentally.

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That is to say,
the spots are where the music is.

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So, he was a wily professional
who knew his business

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and could be of great assistance
to a youngster

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such as I was at that time.
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I do think it's true that Hitchcock,
his own sensibility

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and his own belief in music
and trust in it,

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made a great impact on audiences.
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Some of my earliest influences
and earliest strong impressions

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were from the Hitchcock-Herrmann
collaboration.

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Obviously, Bernard Herrmann's music
was very striking and very strong,

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but Hitchcock was a director
who placed his faith in that.

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Many directors would be afraid to have
that music that loud or that emphatic.

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They might think it's too operatic.
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Directors before Hitchcock
did wonderful things with music,

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and he was not alone.
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But there is something at the core
of his faith and trust and belief in music

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as a character in the film metier
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was uniquely strong and high.
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And I think that every composer that
worked for him benefited from that.

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I should say, in the contemporary scene,
Steven Spielberg is similar

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in that his films need a lot of music.
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And Mr Spielberg is very happy
about relying on music,


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