When I haven’t been able to find a musical concept that adds to the movie, I haven’t used a score. Studios hate the idea of a picture without music. It scares them. But if the first obligation of Dog Day Afternoon was to tell the audience that this event really happened, how could you justify music weaving in and out? The Hill was also done in a naturalistic style, so no score was used. In Network, I was afraid that music might interfere with the jokes. As the picture went on, the speeches got longer and longer. It was clear at the first screening that any music would be fighting the enormous amount of dialogue. Again, no score.