Cinema Quote by 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

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

— Michel Legrand

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

— James Ivory

I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or…

— David Raiklen

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

It's always the theme that defines the songs and background score of any film.

— Devi Sri Prasad

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

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

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

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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