Body Quote by Henry Mancini

You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the…

— Alan Menken

I like to write things that are a soundtrack to my life so if I am experiencing that moment, I want to portray what…

— Amber Mark

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms…

— Marisha Pessl

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson

A lot of modern film scoring is about a lack of themes, so I try to find ways of using music that doesn't necessarily…

— Joseph Trapanese

Creating a film's background score will help me be completely involved in the project because I will be composing more than just the songs…

— Tanishk Bagchi

Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie.

— James Newton Howard

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

— Michel Legrand

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give…

— Wes Anderson

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do…

— Sofia Coppola

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want…

— Ernest Cline

I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to…

— John Keltonic