since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known.

One day everyone will be rewarded for both their good and evil deeds.

Doing Tim&#39;s film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

That still has to be there. And so, it&#39;s kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it&#39;d be lovely. I certainly don&#39;t see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.

I&#39;ll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I&#39;ll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I&#39;m really just going a couple bars at a time.

I think that there&#39;s a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don&#39;t have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It&#39;s still their ball game. It&#39;s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director&#39;s impulses.

I can&#39;t get that live and I don&#39;t have the time to take the tape, after I&#39;ve finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

Danny Elfman

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Written By Danny Elfman

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