"With Yanga we are talking about something that is still going on. Not like 16th century slaves, but we still have people that are not completely free."
Rare was the filmmaker who chose to kill the lead of his movie in the first half. But Alfred Hitchcock did that to Janet Leigh in Psycho. Adding to the impact of that scene was that the film was in black and white, the way it was shot and certainly the music by Bernard Herrmann.
Herrmann composed the scores for seven...
"It would kill me to not be part of the efforts and energies in the world to change things. It's part of my life's blood. I won't ever apologize for that."
"Do they conduct at the same time? Do they see each other? Are they independent of each other?," he asked himself. But he did find a solution.
"Here I was, dressed like Barbra with the nails and all, and I'm fixing Marvin Hamlisch's tie."
