Film Composers Quotes

• El negativo es comparable a la partitura del compositor y la impresión a su interpretación. Cada interpretación difiere de forma sutil.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Way, Negative

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• I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective.

  Adrian Younge

  Thinking, Perspective, Feelings

  "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.

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• If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what you're doing, don't ever become a film composer.

  Henry Jackman

  Jobs, Doing You, Likes

  Fuente: collider.com

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• I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie music works. Actually I'd like to have the opportunity to conduct for the rest of my life.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Opportunity, Attention, Film

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• Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often, success is built on hundreds - or thousands - of very small breaks. When I decided that I was definitely going to pursue a career as a film composer, I decided I was going to beat my head against that particular wall until something broke.

  John Keltonic

  Wall, Years, Careers

  "Una conversación con el prolífico compositor y productor musical John Keltonic". Entrevista con Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. 21 th Of July de 2015.

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• One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.

  Joseph Trapanese

  Art, Important, Just Being

  Fuente: collider.com

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• It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back...

  Danny Elfman

  Running, Jobs, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

  Stanley Clarke

  Pensar, Gente, Guy

  "Films Come to Life with Stanley Clarke's Music". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. February 15, 2008.

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• The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

  John Corigliano

  Thinking, Challenges, Technique

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• John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

  Carter Burwell

  Teenager, Firsts, Film

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• There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

  J. J. Johnson

  Stars, War, Jurassic Park

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• Con la nueva tecnología que sigue entrando en los medios de comunicación, los compositores de cine se ven constantemente en nuevas situaciones de aprendizaje. Aunque soy consciente de que hay que mantenerse al día, sostengo que el verdadero poder creativo está en la mente y el corazón del compositor.

  Henry Mancini

  Real, Heart, Technology

  Henry Mancini (2001). “Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini”, p.185, Cooper Square Press

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• If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

  Steven Spielberg

  Directores, Want, Cine

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

  Park Chan-wook

  Glasses, Musician, Doe

  "Park Chan-wook Talks Differences Between Korean & American Films, How ‘Stoker’ Fits In With His Filmography & More". Interview with Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold dust. I mean, not necessarily stylistically, because everyone is different in what their music sounds like, but the approach and how to look at a film, how to think about a film, how to decide what you want to do, how to think about characters, how to think about art, how to think about narrative, how to liaise with producers, how to liaise with directors.

  Henry Jackman

  Art, Character, Mean

  Fuente: collider.com

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• I have tremendous respect for film composers.

  John Corigliano

  Film, Composer

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