Film Quote by Lara Dutta

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I…

— Danny Elfman

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

It is immensely enjoyable to work for an album because there's a lot more creative freedom. In films sometimes, all that the makers care…

— Shreya Ghoshal

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

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

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

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some…

— Geoff Zanelli

Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't do it.

— Jeet Gannguli

So I prefer to do the entire music for a film. And when I'm doing the background score, I can weave the whole film…

— Amit Trivedi

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

— Michael Haneke

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