Credit Quote by Lorne Balfe

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

— Arjun Janya

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

— Harold Prince

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

— Gail Zappa

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for…

— Bear McCreary

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for…

— Bear McCreary

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer.…

— David Henry Hwang

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five…

— Christopher Young

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

— M. Jayachandran

I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really…

— Charlize Theron

You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up…

— Hans Zimmer

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 today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect…

— Alex North