At the heart of every story is a sound -- something so deep that it resonates like a pressure in your chest,... not merely to underscore the chases, clinches, climaxes, and transitions, but the sound that gives voice to an inner life -- it's soul, if such a thing can be said. Voices, that endow its images with a grace and tragedy no dialogue could ever express -- a dark and bloody heart, a love both overwhelming and destructive, the struggle for birthright. The melodies of an "old" place from which these people come from; and the sounds of the "new" place which come to represent families and ties that bind. [This sound] distills all these lofty conversations that are at once brooding and lush, redolent of both love and loss, and touches that secret place of awe.
Ed Zwick on the work of James Horner
