Bits Quote by Hans Zimmer

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if…

— Mike Figgis

Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the director and…

— John Keltonic

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

— Howard Shore

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

— Anonymous

As a film composer I deal with short bursts of musical ideas that are defined to a large extent by what's happening on the…

— James Newton Howard

There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people…

— Frank Capra

I love the conversation between film and music.

— Agnes Obel

We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos.…

— Ludacris

I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect to a…

— Ramin Djawadi

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

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

— Carlos Alomar

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