Anthem Quote by Jeff Britting

In a Broadway musical, a scene sometimes breaks into a song and vice versa.

— Anu Malik

Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be three minutes…

— Brian Eno

I realized that in every movie, there are a handful of scenes that stand out. So, if you get two of those four-five scenes,…

— Chunky Pandey

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat…

— Alan Ball

There's the internal rhythm within a sequence, and then there's the rhythm between the sequences, and that's extremely important in constructing the narrative. For…

— Frederick Wiseman

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

— Stephen Hopkins

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't…

— Marvin Hamlisch

There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the…

— Thomas Bangalter

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence…

— Frederick Wiseman

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to…

— Andrew Dominik

You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for…

— Ryan Adams