James Newton Howard Quotes

I personally like a long time to spend with a score. I'm not particularly happy doing real short jobs, although there's certainly an advantage to it - you second guess yourself a lot less, and sometimes you're forced to go in directions you might not otherwise go. The Village really had both - all of Night's movies had both, except The Sixth Sense. All of the others had about four or five months to work on it, and then at the end there's a huge amount of pressure because it just seems like there's more at stake after you've worked that long!
James Newton Howard

I had started work on The Village back in January, and by the time I took Collateral on, I had underestimated what it would take to finish The Village. There was just a lot of work to do in both movies, so I think the thing that helped facilitate the decision was really that they were diametrically opposite - so I didn't have to share any particular sensibilities from one to the next, and Michael Mann's demands are so completely different than M. Night Shyamalan's, and the movies were so completely different, that it made it possible for me.
James Newton Howard