Quotes of: Film-music Keyword

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence o...

Clint Eastwood

Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an ...

Ravi Shankar

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has ...

Frank Ocean

I do think that it's better for a musical to live its life first because if you see it on the screen, would you like to go to the theater after that? Probably not. You've seen it. And that's the mystery of a musical that hasn't been filmed. You're bl...

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

Damien Chazelle

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Carson Daly

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

Carter Burwell

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

Jonathan Demme

When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.

Michael Sheen

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.

Teresa Palmer

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

Vera Farmiga

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for ...

Gary Kemp

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, t...

Ice Cube

I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound en...

A. R. Rahman

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Bruce Springsteen

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

June Allyson

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

Juliette Binoche

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

Leona Lewis

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

Ben Kingsley

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

David Chase