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Film music and cutting have a great deal in common. The purpose of both is to create the tempo and mood of the scene. And, just as the ideal cutting is the kind you don't notice as cutting, so with music… I think cutting has definite limitations. Its best use is in violent subjects. That is why the Russians made such effective use of it, because they were dealing with violence, and they could pile shock on shock by means of cutting... But if I am sitting here with you discussing the Five Year Plan, no amount of cutting can make a film of us dramatic because the scene is not dramatic. You cannot achieve quiet, restrained effects that way. But you might express the mood and tone of our conversation with music that would illuminate or even subtly comment on it.
— Alfred Hitchcock (1933)
Hitchcock talking to "Cinema Quarterly" (during the filming of "Waltzes from Vienna") about the use of music in films.
source: Cinema Quarterly
keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Waltzes from Vienna (1934), and music scores
