Amplify Quote by Ken Burns

The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose…

— Asghar Farhadi

“Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.”

— Artie Kane

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what…

— Asghar Farhadi

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

— Michael Haneke

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

— James Ransone

With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music…

— Watkin Tudor Jones

When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of…

— Nicholas Jarecki

A lot of times you can write a scene with a specific song in mind, and then you lay it over the image, and…

— Harmony Korine

You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you…

— Duncan Jones

That's what keeps me going: those moments of solving a problem, of what happens to a movie when the right music is added -…

— James Newton Howard

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both…

— Adrian Younge

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

— Stewart Copeland