Audio Design Quotes

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk being misunderstood, so remember, I am a man who once programmed a baseball game with no baseball players. If anyone appreciates graphics, it's me!

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.

At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.

I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.

You don't really want to talk about 'Duke' in terms of, how many levels are there, how many guns does it have, how many monsters… It's got everything it needs in terms of that, but it's always been about the experience.

There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video game, a movie, or a TV show: I always try to set up my sounds and my themes. I really try to stay with the characters and do the storytelling through the music.

I want to make sound effects for biomes. If you're walking along a river you hear the water, then in the forest you hear birds, but as night comes in, it becomes kind of weird, you can walk through a desert, a swamp, and the sounds merge and change with you.

As entertainment and storytelling move in the direction of more immersive environments, binaural sound will begin to play a larger and larger role in those experiences.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.

I always relish the idea of collaborating with the director on creating the sound world, the sound spectrum, and the sound environment of the film. I use every means at my disposal to create a score that is as strong and powerful to enhance the director's vision for the film.

Music is half the film.

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

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.

I also thought the music was a huge contribution, in terms of creating the scale of that. And, I was impressed with just how natural and fluid the world looks. The world is so artificial and it requires so much work to make all the different pieces add up together, but when it comes together, it just looks effortless. It's amazing.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.