Doe Quote by Danny Elfman

A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its…

— Hans Zimmer

You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that,…

— Trey Parker

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but…

— Ridley Scott

I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be done. So…

— Trevor Rabin

To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So…

— Steve Buscemi

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music…

— Taylor Hackford

If there is a possibility within a film to have a song in the music score that adds a little bit of zing to…

— Lara Dutta

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for…

— A. R. Rahman

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too…

— Alejandro Amenabar

My interest in music tends toward being orchestral music. And the repertoire of music that exists is, to me, far more emotive than what…

— Crispin Glover

You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently…

— Jerry Goldsmith

That's what keeps me going: those moments of solving a problem, of what happens to a movie when the right music is added -…

— James Newton Howard