Quotes About Film Scores

#1. Even though you would like to be able to decide for yourself how offended to be, or whether to be offended at all, you must nevertheless be very offended.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

Joel Salatin

#3. Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

Anne Dudley

#4. To say that Agatha Christie's characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

Ruth Rendell

#5. I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

Brian Wilson

#6. In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#7. ...I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves- that you have to manipulate our belief so we do the right thing. That feels, again, like pregnant women are not given any more credit than children would be in making important decisions.

Emily Oster

#8. I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe.

Dick Trickle

#9. You are an endless project ... changing, evolving, surprising.

James Patterson

#10. I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

Skitch Henderson

#11. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#12. you did wrong in all the right ways.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#13. I mean, realistically, what was I expecting here? A sarcophagus built for two?

Colleen Houck

#14. For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

Nico Muhly

#15. Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

Ihara Saikaku

#16. Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

Peter Orszag

#17. Yeah, no. I did not want to hang out with that group again.

Tijan

#18. In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.

Randy Travis

#19. Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores.

Marco Beltrami

#20. True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

Leonid Afremov

#21. I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.

Howard Shore

#22. I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written scores for thirteen plays, which are not musicals, but straight plays.

Jeff Britting

#23. Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

Anne Dudley

#24. After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.

Paul Wardingham