Film Quote by Brian Wilson

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I…

— Imogen Heap

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

— William P. Perry

Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make…

— Cliff Martinez

My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

— Skitch Henderson

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

— Hideo Kojima

Only directors like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who make period films, have songs in their movies that facilitate the inclusion of classical dance forms. No…

— Remo D'Souza

I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.

— Henry Mancini

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

— Joe Perry

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

— Amit Trivedi

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

— Tom Waits

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a…

— Serj Tankian

Film scores are complicated puzzles that you need to figure out and solve very quickly, or else you're basically fired. You're hired to enhance…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I tend to spend quite a lot of time on the film scores that I do.

— Johann Johannsson

I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not…

— Ennio Morricone