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It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

— Alessandro Nivola

Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is so much…

— Henry Mancini

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

— Claudio Simonetti

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

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so much.

— Henry Jackman

I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.

— Henry Mancini

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story…

— Steven Price

I mean, I think as a composer for film, I am very frequently deferential to the drama. My motto is, 'Do no harm.' My…

— Bear McCreary

There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film…

— Ennio Morricone

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the…

— Chrissie Hynde

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

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

— Taylor Hackford