Done Quote by Sofia Coppola

A lot of modern film scoring is about a lack of themes, so I try to find ways of using music that doesn't necessarily…

— Joseph Trapanese

If there is a possibility within a film to have a song in the music score that adds a little bit of zing to…

— Lara Dutta

So I prefer to do the entire music for a film. And when I'm doing the background score, I can weave the whole film…

— Amit Trivedi

You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the…

— Alan Menken

Creating a film's background score will help me be completely involved in the project because I will be composing more than just the songs…

— Tanishk Bagchi

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I…

— Danny Elfman

When you make a movie with a lot of music in it, you can't always put all the songs onto the soundtrack. They just…

— Max Joseph

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

— David Sylvian

What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune with the…

— Joseph Trapanese

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some…

— Harry Connick, Jr

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a…

— Ethan Coen

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of…

— Gus Van Sant