Cinema Quote by Alexandre Desplat

I mean, I think as a composer for film, I am very frequently deferential to the drama. My motto is, 'Do no harm.' My…

— Bear McCreary

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

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

— Sarah Brightman

I think of myself as a film composer.

— John Williams

I'm not an intellectual composer.

— Les Baxter

When you are a part of an all ensemble kind of thing, with many composers in one film, you get the freedom to work…

— Amaal Mallik

Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it was through…

— Michael Giacchino

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

To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am.

— Devi Sri Prasad

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

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story…

— Steven Price