What if everything had worked out? What if all of the dreams had come true and everything had worked out? how are we going to take all of these motifs and all these melodies from the movie and use them to revisit points of the story and use them to revisit this larger idea of what could have been?

Justin Hurwitz

Categorized in : Entertainment

Everything starts with me sitting at the piano for a very, very long time, going through one melody idea after another, after another. Throwing them out. Sending them to [director Damien Chazelle]. Then, throwing them out. Until we have the right melody or melodies.

I was visiting my parents in Wisconsin. I was coming back to L.A. that day. I was just packing my stuff up at their house. We were heading off to the airport. Damien and I were still emailing back and forth about, 'Oh, this whistle. Should we have a whistle?'... I was so in the middle of it. I didn't want to have to put it down to go to the airport and fly.

He'd email back, being like, 'Oh, yeah, that's interesting. Can you try this instead?' I'd be like, 'Hey, can you guys stop the car?' Then, I would whistle again.