Film Quotes by James Newton Howard

16 Film quotes by James Newton Howard

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James Newton Howard offers 16 short statements that link music and picture, giving a quick sense of how he thinks sound shapes cinematic moments.

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I am delighted just to work on a good movie, no matter what the medium is.

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With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

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I just go from one movie to the next and try not to get fired.

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Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.

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Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

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Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie.

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Immersion in a movie over months and months will give you what you just can't get in the same way over a…

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As a film composer I deal with short bursts of musical ideas that are defined to a large extent by what's happening…

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One of my biggest goals in writing the music for 'Fantastic Beasts' was to create memorable melodies. J.K. Rowling's world has always…

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What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist.…

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That's what keeps me going: those moments of solving a problem, of what happens to a movie when the right music is…

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The colors of 'The Nutcracker' ballet score have become a part of the vocabulary of film music. It's where so much of…

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Jerry Goldsmith, I have to say, is my single favorite composer of all time. He was one of the most innovative guys…

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The thing about 'Fantastic Beasts' is that it's in the wizarding world, in J.K. Rowling's world, but it's not a Harry Potter…

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I work independently of the director, and to some extent, that's actually a big relief to them. When I come to them…

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I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that…

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I loved working with Chris Nolan. I love working with Lawrence Kasdan. Dan Gilroy. Francis Lawrence I love.

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Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense…

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There's a sadness about love, a melancholy and a sadness about beauty. It's just part of the human experience of living on this planet.

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Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened…

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Becoming a father allowed me to become a much better composer, because it allowed me to have tremendous patience. I have much more tolerance…

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I'm a melody guy. To me, that's a musical souvenir people take from a movie. They remember a theme or a feeling, and if…

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Well, the first two movies of any size that I did were a movie called 'Everybody's All American' that Taylor Hackford directed - I…

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I really don't think about the Oscars.

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