The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.
There's such a rich trove of unheard Howard Ashman lyrics that we're so blessed to draw from.
Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented.
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many writers and influences and ways of communicating all sprang out of the time I was a member of that workshop.
'Snow White' was really hip for its time. Walt Disney was basically using Sigmund Romberg and operetta in the telling of the story, and through animation - that was revolutionary.
I'm an architect. Before you start pouring the concrete, you build a foundation that is solid so that when you take the scaffolding down, it holds - forever. So that when junior high schools are doing 'Hunchback,' a 12-year-old as Frollo still works on some level.
