Asks Quote by Sergio Leone

What I do is give Ennio Morricone suggestions and describe to him my characters, and then, quite often, he'll possibly write five themes for…

— Sergio Leone

My task is to tell a story with the music. I always like to have themes in terms of characters or plots, and things…

— Ramin Djawadi

I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til…

— R. B. Kitaj

A theme can be a little melody, it can be a couple of notes. It can underscore and add subtext.

— Bear McCreary

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

— Tori Amos

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have…

— Michel Legrand

I really love writing themes and melody.

— Trevor Rabin

Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find…

— Julia Holter

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms…

— Marisha Pessl

In a time when directors did not fear composers with a strong voice, Morricone wrote scores like operas or symphonies, with passion, scope, bravura…

— Alexandre Desplat

Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie.

— James Newton Howard