Film Score Quotes

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

Well into the '40s, it wasn't uncommon for big-budget Hollywood movies to contain little or no underscoring, and many of today's directors, following the lead of Martin Scorsese in 'GoodFellas,' accompany their films with pop records, not original music.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

I personally like melodies. And Mani Sharma garu is the Melody Brahma.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.

I not only composed music for my albums but also for the film 'Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh.'

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

I was always proud of the score to 'Newsies.' The movie is good, but it was under-budgeted.

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.

Most film scores have one vibe, and they stick with it.

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.

Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many.

When I was a kid, there was no DVD, no VHS. The only way to re-live a movie once it was out of the theater was to listen to its film score.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

One of the first things I want do when I start writing music for a film is to create its own sound world, its own music world.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

'Raaga' is one of those movies which is very special for any music director to compose music for.

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.