Cinema Quote by Devi Sri Prasad

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

— Arjun Janya

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

— Taylor Hackford

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

— Steven Price

I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a…

— John Tiffany

The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to…

— August Wilson

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so much.

— Henry Jackman

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of…

— Yo-Yo Ma

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

— Stanley Crouch

The performance of a music director should be judged in a holistic manner, which includes songs as well as background score.

— Ilaiyaraaja

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers,…

— Thomas Harrison

Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

— John Gourley

Our industry holds a musical perception about each emotion that we depict in our narrative. As music composers, our job is either to cater…

— Amaal Mallik