Danny Elfman has been involved with the music for 17 films directed by Tim Burton, going all the way back to 1985’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Since then, they have collaborated on such projects as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Their latest offering is Dumbo. (Read our review here.)

That’s 34 years of working together, enough time for Elfman to become familiar with the director’s musical likes and dislikes. But Elfman never guesses at what Burton is going to want with each new project.