Quotes of: Film-music Keyword

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

Wayne McGregor

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

Wynton Marsalis

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Zubin Mehta

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

Shakira

Art, and above all, music has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks to draw towards a total exaltation in which the indi...

Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that bab...

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a ...

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

Kiefer Sutherland

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

Karl Urban

'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I had such a laugh, every single day. I look like such a feral child in it.

Olivia Cooke

When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will be spared, and the catering will be as fine as any really really good restaurant. Jerry is an amazing producer, with a commitment to his films second t...

William Fichtner

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

Conrad Hall

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

Dev Anand

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

Lisa See

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Mike Figgis

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

Ron Perlman

I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.

Ryan Reynolds

An artist must either give up art or develop.

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965

ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.

Screenwriting 101 by Film Crit Hulk!