Marco Beltrami Quotes

There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.

The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

I walked out of... was it 'Stardust?' That thing with the witches? I was so looking forward to it, but I just couldn't handle it, man. Ten minutes in, and I was gone. I didn't have to walk out of 'Transformers 2' because I didn't go. I loved the first 'Transformers.' I loved it, but I heard too many of my friends walked out of the second one.

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

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

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 important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

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.

You should not do everything in your power to make reviewers cranky before - right before they see your movie.

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

The 'Reno' movie is very solid. 'Balls of Fury' I'm pretty disappointed in - I blame myself. People hate both of those movies equally.

I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect to a character or scene.

'Raging Bull' was badly received at first. It took 10 years for it to be recognised.