Always Quote by Sam Esmail

To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the…

— Karyn Kusama

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of…

— Larry Fessenden

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

— Ti West

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

A horror film does not rely on dialogues and music. It is the sound of creaking doors, the window banging open and the build-up…

— Mukul Dev

Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.

— Matthew Heineman

Thriller' reshaped sound. It reshaped everything.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my…

— George Lucas

My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many horror movies…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and you always…

— Ben Burtt

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

Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting challenge from…

— Oneohtrix Point Never