Henry Mancini Quotes

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

When I was composing for 'The Villain,' I looked at it as a fan and came up with tunes accordingly.

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

When Kubrick called me about 'The Shining,' it was very strange. He first asked me to write music for his film, but I instead gave him suggestions about some of my pieces. I told him about 'The Awakening of Jacob,' which he did use in 'The Shining.'

A dream of mine is to write a 'Bond' theme tune.

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

So I prefer to do the entire music for a film. And when I'm doing the background score, I can weave the whole film together in terms of themes and songs for a good cinematic feel.

I would love to compose for an entire film because it will be a different experience.

Composing music for 'Mungaru Male 2' is a big responsibility and challenge.

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

Godzilla' took two months because it required a two-hour-plus score. 'Imitation Game' was three weeks.

For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.

Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.