Cinema Quote by Mike Figgis

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

— Jonathan Demme

Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is so much…

— Henry Mancini

Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the director and…

— John Keltonic

There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people…

— Frank Capra

I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect to a…

— Ramin Djawadi

As a film composer I deal with short bursts of musical ideas that are defined to a large extent by what's happening on the…

— James Newton Howard

I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can we be…

— Hans Zimmer

You can treat musicians like actors - you give them a roadmap but don't tell them what to do, and let their personal style…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

— Howard Shore

I love the conversation between film and music.

— Agnes Obel

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

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

— Ludwig Goransson