Howard Shore

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look…

— Howard Shore

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

— Howard Shore

You don't always want to be using the music in a way to express ideas inherent that are on the screen. You…

— Howard Shore

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I…

— Howard Shore

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working…

— Howard Shore

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture…

— Howard Shore

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

— Howard Shore

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to…

— Howard Shore

I think once a year it's good to look back at the history of Oscar and to embrace the great work that…

— Howard Shore

I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure…

— Howard Shore

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80…

— Howard Shore

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

— Howard Shore

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working…

— Howard Shore

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

— Howard Shore

I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination…

— Howard Shore

Different directors have different techniques in the use of films. Cronenberg is very different in the way he works with film, and…

— Howard Shore

I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to…

— Howard Shore

'Saturday Night Live' was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in…

— Howard Shore

I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert…

— Howard Shore

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

— Howard Shore