Cinema Quote by Alessandro Nivola

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I've always been a film lover - that's why I've always wanted to write music for films.

— Alexandre Desplat

The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly.

— Alexandre Desplat

Composing music for a film, from my point of view, is like getting into the skin of the subject. It is just like how…

— Devi Sri Prasad

I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger…

— Zach Condon

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

— Claudio Simonetti

I like to write film music that stands on its own.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I write music for film because I love it.

— Curt Smith

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music…

— Ry Cooder

Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music…

— Alexandre Desplat