Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words, edited by the composer Alessandro De Rosa, is published by Oxford University Press next month.
But, after a lifetime’s career in both Hollywood and European cinema, Ennio Morricone is now settling scores of a different kind.
“There are times … when you get to the recording stage without having the slightest clue as to the director’s expectations,” he says in the book, Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words.
But he is critical of composers who, he argues, have been complicit in dumbing down their art.