Attention Quote by Ry Cooder

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

— Michael Haneke

A lot of times you can write a scene with a specific song in mind, and then you lay it over the image, and…

— Harmony Korine

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

— Stewart Copeland

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both…

— Adrian Younge

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your…

— Wes Anderson

“Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.”

— Artie Kane

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

— Carter Burwell

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker…

— Ken Burns

That's what keeps me going: those moments of solving a problem, of what happens to a movie when the right music is added -…

— James Newton Howard

Music is the life of a film.

— Govinda

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a…

— Henry Jackman

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

— James Ransone