Film Music Quotes

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

I'd love to do music for films.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene.

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn't like.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.