Film Score Quotes

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores. ~ Paul Wardingham

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event. ~ Stewart Copeland

Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck. ~ Cliff Martinez

The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out. ~ Jonathan Heatt

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit ... in the world of film composition, you can't do that. ~ James Horner

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me. ~ Park Chan-wook

He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down. ~ Michael Chabon

The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing. ~ Trevor Rabin

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film. ~ Sam Shepard

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film. ~ Richard Donner

A very receptive state of mind ... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. ~ Minor White

I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me. ~ Casey Nicholaw

'Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty thugs, who have to find the hero in themselves, when they attack. ~ John Boyega

I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film. ~ Kaitlyn Dever

I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it. ~ Luchino Visconti

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked. ~ Kabir Bedi

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires. ~ Park Chan-wook

You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes. ~ Stephanie Zacharek

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce. ~ Debbie Reynolds

On a film you can really get away with learning the scene the night before and that's often just not possible with TV, so you have to be a little bit more prepared a little bit more in advance. ~ Claire Danes

When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film. ~ Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Who do you think would win in a fight? Lucien," he indicated their Pack Leader with a tild of his head, "or Lucian?" her referred to the 'lycan' leader of the film franchise. ~ Samantha Young

In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong. ~ Richard Corliss

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world. ~ Ann Macbeth

What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable. ~ Wong Kar-Wai

I want to make a film, to see everything through the eyes of an animal. "What are you shooting?" people say to me. "Look around you. There's a war on in Chechnya." But Saint Francis preached to the birds. He spoke to them as equals. What if these birds spoke to him in their bird language, and it wasn't he who condescended to them? ~ Svetlana Alexievich

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually. ~ Irrfan Khan

My family get so mad at me when they come over. All I'll have in is milk and eggs. I mainly keep film in my fridge - it's better for it; it stops it from going old. I'm bad at eating healthy; I usually just run across the street and get cheeseburgers. ~ Gia Coppola

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film. ~ Renny Harlin

I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time. ~ Brian Eno

Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores. ~ Sam Snead

Nobody loves me. No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn't pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of the film. ~ Marlon Wayans

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film. ~ Roger Ebert

When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock. ~ Hiroyuki Sanada

Okay that's it. Now I'm torching this. I just need to score a match. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen

Guided by film ... we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things. ~ Siegfried Kracauer

The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different. ~ Elijah Wood

You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating. ~ Thom Powers