And the deadlines are ridiculous. You get impossible deadlines to create a ton of music with no budget. Once you create it, the Director comes in and changes it. And the thing is, I don't really think there is such a thing as a contemporary composer these days. There's no place for them unfortunately, there's nobody that's gonna play your stuff if you sit and write orchestra music.
Orchestras are too latched on to playing repertoire that's a hundred years old.
So contemporary composers have to resort to, 'Hey, I know. Well, writing for films is a lot different from the freedom and liberation that you have when you're writing just as a composer. It's like somebody saying, 'Well, I have this hotel and I have this big space on the wall, and I need a painting that has red and blue in it. So when you're composing for films you're really underscoring the film. You have to understand what's happening in the movie at that particular time, what the characters are like and where they're going, and you have to sort of create this different undercurrent of all these different plot elements.