Top 85 Elfman's Quotes

#1. In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #57774
#2. I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #71183
#3. I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #72437
#4. I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #76233
#5. It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #77521
#6. I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #101250
#7. I'm not some big party chick, so it's not like I have to keep up my big social life.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #138969
#8. Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #150505
#9. As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Carol Burnett

Elfman's Quotes #152839
#10. I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #250586
#11. In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #259420
#12. Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #279474
#13. I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #327148
#14. It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #328801
#15. And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #336844
#16. The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #392573
#17. I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #413217
#18. Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #416628
#19. I [have] love for others and love for life.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #416733
#20. I want to go outside and play.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #421286
#21. You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #428673
#22. I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #445881
#23. You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #495139
#24. Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #499484
#25. There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #515833
#26. I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #585759
#27. So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #596281
#28. I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #599348
#29. Sometimes on a film you just become taken with the fact that, all right this is as rough as it gets, but I'm going to support my general and I'm going to do the very best I can for him because he's a good general and I like him.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #603818
#30. The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #623880
#31. I have been styling my own hair since I was four years old ... and I still don't let anyone else touch it to this day. I cut, color, style, and spray my own hair, on all sets and shoots, that's just the way it goes. I get way too nervous when someone else starts to mess with it.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #651083
#32. Sting! I mean, come on - whoe doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeath, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #658502
#33. It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #664143
#34. I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don'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.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #691429
#35. It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #701222
#36. Nothing bad ever happens, why should I care?

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #710635
#37. I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #738223
#38. Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #775758
#39. Doing Tim'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.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #812034
#40. It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #830601
#41. And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #863471
#42. Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #883617
#43. I intend to make Scientology as accessible to as many people as I can.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #905403
#44. I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #928974
#45. And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #939134
#46. I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #941968
#47. You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #945041
#48. The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1001920
#49. It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1013273
#50. My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1016120
#51. Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1027319
#52. Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1110394
#53. That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1121825
#54. And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1132532
#55. It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1145674
#56. Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1168064
#57. I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1178192
#58. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1206384
#59. You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1254749
#60. There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1281672
#61. I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper
cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me.
I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget;
we've only got so many tricks.
no one lives forever.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1323477
#62. Die, die we all pass away,
But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay,
And you might try to hide, And you might try to pray,
But we all end up remains of the day.

Danny Elfman - The Corpse Bride

Elfman's Quotes #1325028
#63. In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1350547
#64. I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1371826
#65. For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1389251
#66. If there's one thing I really love ... it's sad music.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1391099
#67. Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1392112
#68. There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1406712
#69. So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1449908
#70. This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1464335
#71. I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1500893
#72. I would dazzle you with brilliance, if I only had the knack. Cause I like you just the way you are.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1512977
#73. Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1515391
#74. Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1525760
#75. AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1545289
#76. Alan Cumming was such a fun guy to watch. I remember he has a song in the first 'Spy Kids' movie, and when Danny Elfman came to set, they were working on the song.

Daryl Sabara

Elfman's Quotes #1601768
#77. You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1633868
#78. The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1645790
#79. You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1669207
#80. I took part of Alan Silvestri's theme on the original [movie], which I really liked, and I pulled it into it new theme, which became kind of a hybrid. I really enjoyed that.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1713929
#81. 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.

Danny Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1760934
#82. I do not see how it's possible to have a "friends with benefits" lifestyle, because if the sex is great, it's going to naturally expand into a more meaningful relationship. Otherwise, it's just a booty call.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1761957
#83. If you look at all the comic book films that have come since then, in terms of tone, in terms of look, even in terms of Danny Elfman's music for Batman, so many that followed have been inspired by that, specifically. It had a cultural impact worldwide.

Michael Uslan

Elfman's Quotes #1792109
#84. If you get excited about something, it's totally okay to show it.

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1835344
#85. I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

Jenna Elfman

Elfman's Quotes #1837599

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