Ballads Quote by Nick Cave

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

— Q-Tip

In my earlier films, there was lots of song, dance and action. But now, I believe the story and script is more important.

— Nithiin

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

— Alessandro Nivola

It's quite different writing for films and for myself. You have to help guide a scene along emotionally, and the wrong approach can just…

— Michael Penn

People don't think of genres anymore. The script is all that matters. And as long as it appeals to my sensibilities as an actor-producer,…

— Abhay Deol

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

— Stanley Kubrick

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at…

— Jonathan Ames

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The…

— Stanley Kubrick

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that…

— Josh Radnor

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything…

— Salman Rushdie

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told…

— Peter Temple