Best Film Scoring Quotes

"Beethoven pieces that were transformed into other droning music by Walter/Wendy Carlos set these brutal scenes of mayhem to beautiful music."

"Part of the genius of John Williams is how he spots music and how he places music in a movie."

"Revenge of the Sith is a masterclass in film scoring."

"The most effective emotional moments are a perfect storm of believable and emotive actors, clever juxtapositions, and a particularly moving score."

"He won for the best score for Dune, that's the original score, he is the best."

"Hans Zimmer is already on board. That's a good sign. He's great."

"For one, the show is consistently over-scored... Sometimes silence is an effective score by itself."

"This is one of the most versatile, memorable, and instantly recognizable scores in movie history."

"Elfman absolutely nailed it and the music is now considered one of the greatest aspects of the film."

"Zimmer has said that he hoped the score would feel like huge fog horns over a city and with the electronic flavor he's added the mixture is instantly compelling."

"You have to plan when you're writing a soundtrack with themes and light motifs like this. You have to know what the story is who the characters are how everything is related and what's gonna happen."

"Film music acts as basically this invisible hand that is guiding you subconsciously."

"There's a theme for family, for mischief, for Gryffindor, for Voldemort, and of course, there's Hedwig's theme."

"Without this soundtrack, the action would not feel nearly as good."

"I can't be the only one that's immediately transported back to 2002 with this amazing Danny Elfman score that belongs to the best superhero film to date."

"Music can make or break a character, it's a huge part of the atmosphere of the show."

"John Williams is like the goat in his world."

"The Batman score is so good. There's currently an orchestra touring where they're screening the Batman in its entirety with the orchestra performing the score live in sync."

"I think what's really interesting about the scores on the shortlist is they're very diverse in terms of the kinds of movies there."

"One element of the originals that exceeded George Lucas's expectations from its inception was John Williams's score."

"John Williams doing a Batman theme? I'd be down."

"Love the music, John Williams makes Star Wars epic."

"Jerry Goldsmith's score is one of, if not his best scores ever. It's simply brilliant."

"The score started and I had chills, I was like 'oh my god this is so good'."

"It puts it all to shame... from an acting perspective, a musical score perspective, and cinematography perspective."

"Musical cues can make or break a horror film, and the score for Halloween consistently intensifies the scares."

"You can take any movie and any story as silly or dumb or ridiculous as it may be and you add a John Carpenter score onto it, it's like it makes it amazing."

"It's real and it's painful. I really want to highlight Ludwig gorenson's composition here because it's essential. It's such a strong modern reinterpretation of Bill Conti's original score."

"But, it's cool, you know, they tailor a lot of different scenes, a lot of different scores that they'll do four scenes like to a specific character, and it's cool, they really bring out a lot of the personality in our performances is with the music, and I absolutely love it."

"He might be the greatest film composer of all time. It's debatable."

"Music can tie a scene to a character or an event."

"It was definitely exciting because it's like now you're not operating within the confines of bars hooks versus it's just how do we take what's happening on screen and amplify it."

"For doing film scoring, you got to capture really, really high fidelity."

"I love creating tension with music in films."

"One of the biggest things that you need to nail with a movie... is absolutely the score and who's composing."

"I find that especially when you're working on film score stuff, six eight, seven eight, twelve eight, these kind of odd time signatures work really well to add a sense of pacing and movement but also unpredictability to the music."

"John Williams is better at scoring films than anybody else is at anything else in the world."

"John Williams is arguably the greatest film composer of all time."

"I'm Charlie Clouser, and I compose scores for films such as the Saw horror movie franchise and sometimes I make records."

"I really wanted it to feel like the sound was kind of dissolving and getting more and more indistinct as the movie went on."

"They're really ideal for everything from album and production work, to scoring for film and other media."

"It's a horror movie that was scored in part by Damon Albarn, which is the coolest thing."

"I'm very passionate about composing for films."

"Bernard Herrmann made film music an art form, bringing into it new layers of depth and meaning."

"I've always wanted to be a film composer since I was 16 or 17. It was really this passion I had of cinema and music that were merging."

"The power of music in a film is so strong and so beautiful."

"To have fitted a score from one film to another is in itself a remarkable achievement."

"Being a film composer, I love being on the stage when that director finally gets to hear that score being played for the first time."

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"How to choose tempo for film music cues and how to know if and when to change it? Let the music decide how it fits around the picture."

"I never thought about scoring a film until Tim Burton asked me to score Pee-wee's Big Adventure."

"Writing movie music is there's nothing in the world because the crescendos of music and the question is what you see are always together."

"If only film scoring could reach to this level of intellectual and emotional intensity more often."

"For every location in the film, we're going to have to add one mono track and three stereo tracks to create this character of this location."

"That type of sound is really popular in Hollywood movies, especially any kind of superhero or epic movies, fantasy genre, Lord of the Rings."