Cinema Quote by Claudio Simonetti

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a…

— Henry Jackman

But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

— Maurice Jarre

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

— Alessandro Nivola

I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger…

— Zach Condon

I had always wanted to compose music for movies, but had never been given the opportunity.

— Allan Holdsworth

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

— Rob Zombie

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

Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare.…

— Johann Johannsson

I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward…

— Johann Johannsson

Music is the life of a film.

— Govinda

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

— Ennio Morricone