Overview
- Williams described most film scores as ephemeral and fragmentary, saying they rarely stand as concert pieces without reconstruction.
- Biographer Tim Greiving characterized the stance as genuine self‑deprecation and later clarified Williams was reflecting on concert programming rather than disowning his work.
- Greiving also noted Williams was not targeting modern scores specifically, adding that the composer doesn’t watch films or listen to film music.
- Williams called film scoring a job or opportunity he accepted, even as he maintained a long, “very special” collaboration with Steven Spielberg.
- The five‑time Oscar winner with 54 nominations last scored a theatrical release with 2023’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, as the biography John Williams: A Composer’s Life approaches publication.