Film Quote by Zoya Akhtar

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

— Drake Doremus

You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you…

— Duncan Jones

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it…

— RZA

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

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both…

— Adrian Younge

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but…

— Ridley Scott

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

I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the…

— David Raiklen

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

— James Ransone

Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could always count…

— Wesley Morris

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The…

— Stanley Kubrick