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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

I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La Dolce Vita,'…

— Alexandre Desplat

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music…

— Robert Lopez

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

— Ludwig Goransson

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as…

— Jerry Goldsmith

The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any…

— Bryce Dessner

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

I think of myself as a film composer.

— John Williams

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

— Alex North

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five…

— Christopher Young

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman