Feelings Quote by James Newton Howard

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

— Ludwig Goransson

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like…

— Danny Elfman

It's a very fun project as a composer to work on a movie that has music in its core.

— Santhosh Narayanan

I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of score work.…

— Aesop Rock

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their…

— Danny Elfman

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music…

— Robert Lopez

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

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story…

— Steven Price

According to me, one composer should do one film.

— Jeet Gannguli

The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on. The director…

— Hans Zimmer

I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum…

— Adrian Younge

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