You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the director for music by John Williams, LaRam Beauxero.

The greatest way to demonstrate how much music affects movies.

Play it absolutely with no music at all.

And then go back and do the whole scene again with all the cues.

You'll recognize the absolute brilliance of John Williams.

The minute John raises his baton and plays the first theme, you just go, oh my God,

here's another one.

This is Daniel Howitt from Next Best Picture.

Laurent, thanks for chatting with me about your film Music by John Williams.

It was so amazing to be transported back to all of my favorite movie scores and to learn more about John Williams.

So I appreciate your time talking with me about the film today.

Of course, of course. Well, you have spent decades making behind the scenes documentaries for

films, including many of the films that were featured in the documentary. How did that

experience behind the scenes of those films prepare you to tell John Williams' story?

Well, I've known John for 30 years for as long as I've known Stephen,

and I've been privileged to watch them in their process,

whether it was on set or on the scoring stages.

And so, of course, you know, as a fanatic, you know, a lover of film and film music and

and those particular men, I couldn't get enough.

And frankly, this documentary is something that I've been trying to do for years.

And each time I would see John, I would hint to his great despair, you know, at it.

And when he turned 90, you know, I finally had this discussion with Stephen.

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