Enhancing Atmosphere Quotes

Obviously, when you do something with drama and comedy in it - and by that, I mean a scene that has drama and comedy in it - you know the minute you introduce music, you're either scoring the drama or you're scoring the comedy, and therefore the scene becomes either dramatic or comedic.

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

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

I don't even want a song to ramp up the drama, you know? I want music to be there only when it really enhances the feeling.

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

Songs definitely add to the excitement about a movie.