If you think of a composer when he sits down to write, it's just him and a piece of paper. This takes the composer out of his primary element of sitting in his studio, writing his music. |
My job, in the end, was to serve and protect, to assure that John's music was not being frivolously cut into little pieces. Slowly, John realized that he didn't have to fight for every note . |
When The Red Violin came along, it seemed like a film that would eliminate a lot of those things, because it's about the music. |