Creative process Quote by Mike Patton

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea and I can pretty much execute it.…

— Mike Patton

I'm not a filmmaker. I'm not a music producer by choice.

— Afeni Shakur

When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a…

— Johann Johannsson

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

— Peter Weir

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other…

— Frank Dukes

Composing music for a film, from my point of view, is like getting into the skin of the subject. It is just like how…

— Devi Sri Prasad

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music…

— Ry Cooder

As a film composer, you have to be a good collaborator.

— Ramin Djawadi

If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

— Terrence Malick

Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in…

— Adria Petty

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself…

— Darren Aronofsky

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

— Jan de Bont