Communication Quote by Todd Phillips

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

— Todd Phillips

As a film composer I deal with short bursts of musical ideas that are defined to a large extent by what's happening on the…

— James Newton Howard

It's really fun doing scenes with people when there's no written dialogue because you're really listening to each other, you're playing off each other,…

— Sebastian Silva

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

Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

— Sam Shepard

Composing music for a film, from my point of view, is like getting into the skin of the subject. It is just like how…

— Devi Sri Prasad

I take it extremely seriously to do absolutely the best work possible and the truest work possible, because I feel like that is what's…

— Sandra Oh

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

— Frankie Ballard

Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

— John Gourley

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

— Stevie Jackson

I feel like what Director Bong is so amazing at is taking so many things and presenting them to you - never telling you…

— Lily Collins