Getting the Score

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Pixar is doing something right, we all know that. I mean, 9 movies in a row that are big financial hits?
So what are they doing? Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3 put it best right here.
“It’s important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up,” says Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story [...]

As a director, part of your job is getting the people around you to function at the peak of their creative powers.
So what do composers need to be as creative as possible? It varies for everyone, of course, but I will speak from my personal point of view here,both in terms of the pure creative [...]