Brain Quote by Alexandre Desplat

When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically…

— Johann Johannsson

With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that…

— Henry Mancini

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

— Ken Burns

With every film, for which I'm the only composer, I try to switch genres. I find that really exciting.

— Amaal Mallik

I'm a visual-driven music composer.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I think of myself as a film composer.

— John Williams

I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum…

— Adrian Younge

I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to…

— John Keltonic

I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of score work.…

— Aesop Rock

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

— James Newton Howard

As film composers, what we essentially do is fusion.

— Jeet Gannguli

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make…

— Pawel Pawlikowski