Cinematic Score Quotes

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

I've always been a film lover - that's why I've always wanted to write music for films.

'Braveheart' is one of my favorite movies, and to be part of an epic sprawling period film is on my bucket list: something with some grandeur to it, a really awesome score, something that's just kind of moving, you know.

I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.'

It was quite frightening to be asked to write the music of a Western because there are so many things that you can refer to that can be cliche, and that could really poison your mind, from Morricone, to Bernstein, to Neil Young. So much music has been written for Westerns, that you wonder how you're going to find a new or different idea.

When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.

There is a regular format for songs in commercial films, such as a hero introduction song, but in 'Premier Padmini,' the songs and the background score aid the script.

I would do a movie musical.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

With 'Game of Thrones,' the most dominant instrument would definitely be the cello. That's something I just felt really captured the mood of the show very well.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'

The soundtrack for 'Mr. Fraud' is classical with a decent level of fusion.

A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.

Music is the life of a film.

When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a story; in a way, you stop becoming a composer and become a storyteller instead. You tell the story with the most appropriate themes. How you approach these things is a very personal matter, but your goal is to tell the story first.

Music in this film is a very important part.

When you go into something like a space movie, you think there's going to be no music or little music.

We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument.