Cinema Quote by Adrian Younge

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

— James Ransone

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to…

— Marketa Irglova

You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you…

— Duncan Jones

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it…

— RZA

With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music…

— Watkin Tudor Jones

I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect to a…

— Ramin Djawadi

Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different…

— David Lynch

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

— Drake Doremus

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

— Ingmar Bergman

We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be funny. It…

— John Musker

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.…

— Ingmar Bergman

“Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.”

— Artie Kane