Audience Quote by RZA

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

— James Ransone

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

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

— Drake Doremus

When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the ethos.

— Zoya Akhtar

The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose…

— Asghar Farhadi

I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing…

— Karan Johar

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to…

— Marketa Irglova

My interest in music tends toward being orchestral music. And the repertoire of music that exists is, to me, far more emotive than what…

— Crispin Glover

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

— Ingmar Bergman

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically…

— Peter Greenaway

“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

When I see a movie, the music often gets in the way for me. It's something that, say, for myself and Claire, we never,…

— Stuart A. Staples