“When Strauss was writing his music, it was dance music. Now it’s classical music. So how can you tell that in 50 years’ time film music will not turn out to be classical...
“It should sound like good music; it should always have a structure to it. But basically, it should be musical and listenable. And, it should be able to, away from the picture, conjure up the same sort of feelings and images that it was meant to...