Character Quote by Nicolas Winding Refn

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 think sound is a huge part of my filmmaking process and it's a part of the narrative for me.

— Ti West

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to…

— Howard Shore

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of…

— David Raiklen

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to…

— Mira Nair

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which…

— Nicole Kidman

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

It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the…

— Marc Platt

When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a story; in…

— Johann Johannsson

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also love it…

— Panos Cosmatos

I didn't know anything about film when I first started - I was a painter - but I [always] felt that sound was just…

— David Lynch

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

— Terry Zwigoff