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DANNY ELFMAN on Composer Bernard Herrmann and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, directed by Robert Wise)

I literally don’t have a favorite film. I’ve got 10 categories of favorite films that do different things in different places. Favorite films tend to be, with everybody, it’s about the age we encountered something. Way up on the list of favorite films would be Psycho, way up on the favorite films list would be so many films, Polanski films, Kurosawa films.

What I, it’s like, “Oh, my God, I couldn’t go in the water for years, the ocean.” And for me, I didn’t think twice about going in the ocean, I didn’t give a shit about sharks. I really, really enjoyed the movie, but it didn’t have any kind of emotional impact on me because I was the wrong age. So it’s all about being impressionable, with favorite songs and favorite films, and to be somewhere between late adolescence and college years. And, inevitably, the favorite song it’ll be something like, “I was in college. I fell in love.” Emotions that go along with it. And you could never dispute or argue these things. We make emotional attachments to things.

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