Johann Johannsson Quotes

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

Whenever I make a movie, I always try to figure out what kind of music it would be.

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

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.

When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a team of artists. So I think like a filmmaker more than a composer.

I write music for film because I love it.

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

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

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

I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given music, I have kept my option for the last. I like to make music and not necessarily singing all the songs.

Music is half the film.

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

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

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

Jerry Bruckheimer is the most hands-on producer that I've worked with. Jerry's very involved in the music, and he's such a fan of film. When you watch him playing back the cues to the picture, he's like a kid in a candy store.