Letdown Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.”

— Artie Kane

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

— Ridley Scott

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

— Michael Haneke

Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.

— James Newton Howard

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

— James Ransone

Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is so much…

— Henry Mancini

Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could always count…

— Wesley Morris

You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you…

— Duncan Jones

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

— Howard Shore

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

— Jonathan Demme

“The trouble with life is that, unlike movies, it doesn't have background music. We never know how we're supposed to feel.”

— Lewis Gardner

I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's…

— Fred Schepisi