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Whenever I watch a movie I like to imagine what sort of music I might compose for a scene, to create a particular kind…

— Allan Holdsworth

I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's…

— Michael Giacchino

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

— Alan Alda

I really love movie soundtracks and stuff like that. That's really a huge part of any movie. I actually think about... that this would…

— Jay Gordon

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention…

— Aaron Sorkin

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

— Jeff VanderMeer

As far as music is concerned, I played music for a very long time, so I have a background in that.

— Frank Vincent

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

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story.…

— Claudio Simonetti

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

— Spike Jonze

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

— Jeff VanderMeer