Audience Quote by John Eaton

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

— Harold Prince

Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the…

— Alexandre Desplat

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could…

— Frank Wildhorn

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

Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half the film.…

— Shaan

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

— Carlos Alomar

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,…

— Claude Debussy

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do…

— Ethan Coen

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned…

— Patty Duke

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

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

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