Asks Quote by Michel Legrand

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

— Michel Legrand

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one…

— Michel Legrand

I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture…

— Ramin Djawadi

I enjoy and understand melody before I create it. But the challenge is that I've also got to satisfy the film going audience of…

— Vidyasagar

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

— Michel Legrand

I've got so many melodies in my head.

— Jorja Smith

When you are a part of an all ensemble kind of thing, with many composers in one film, you get the freedom to work…

— Amaal Mallik

I've never had to search for themes. My films just come naturally out of my interest.

— James Ivory

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

— Willie Nelson

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give…

— Wes Anderson

Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could always count…

— Wesley Morris