Directors Quote by Todd Phillips

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be…

— Peter Doig

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

— Sun Ra

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random…

— Brandon Boyd

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

— Brian Eno

Music is not just a composition of sounds, it is a tool to enhancing scenes.

— Anette Sandberg

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The…

— Todd Phillips

I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result that I…

— Caroline Polachek

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to…

— Spike Lee

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

— Taylor Hackford

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who…

— Jeffrey Lewis

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

— Steven Price

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

— Tunde Adebimpe