Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Lorne Balfe

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish composer Lorne Balfe.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Lorne Balfe is a Scottish composer and producer of film, television, and video game scores. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe is known for his composing music for big-budget films like 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Terminator Genisys, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and the DreamWorks Animation films Home and Penguins of Madagascar, as well as the video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders and the Call of Duty franchise, as well as the new fanfare for Skydance Media. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.

Scottish - Composer | Born: February 23, 1976

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Every single project deserves a different approach.

Lorne Balfe

I think that purists may regard the '80s and Jerry Goldsmith being the quintessential example of film scoring, but that was also a very prominent type during a time when soundtracks were purely songs, and there was very little score.

Lorne Balfe

I studied percussion as a music student, and I didn't have the best of timing, so I could never make it as a professional, unfortunately.

Lorne Balfe

I wish I could have more faith in my own music. Unfortunately, I don't.

Lorne Balfe

Ideally, it's great to gain inspiration from the script, but when filming starts, characters and their journeys can change.

Lorne Balfe

Hans Zimmer and I considered 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows' to be a steampunk genre; our inspiration came from Sherlock's own travels.

Lorne Balfe

A composer's a pretty lonely life. When people talk about premieres and movie star - no. We sit in a dark room and spend a lot of time alone.

Lorne Balfe

I just think I started off like many composers, just in different fields of music I was doing. I started doing a lot of commercials and jingles, and then that led to doing TV and then films and games and TV.

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I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.

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When you're working on a film, it's not always finished visually, what you're looking at.

Lorne Balfe

Ad Astra' is a visually beautiful film but the story is the interesting part.

Lorne Balfe

I think that the whole point of music is that there shouldn't be rules. There is no right or wrong. And the fact that I may not like that piece of music and you may... The validation is in the fact that somebody gets something from it.

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Many times, what's in the script doesn't make it to the film these days, and when you choose a job, you take it based on genre and whom you're going to work with, if you believe in them.

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I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning and you've got actual responsibilities instead of just writing music for yourself.

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My first ever job of doing additional writing for Hans was 'Batman Begins', so that's going back I don't know, are we at 13 years now? I was his assistant for maybe ten years, a long journey.

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Working with the Ubisoft team was a joy.

Lorne Balfe

I can think, probably in my head, as a child I thought I always wanted to be soldier. So action music to me is something that I just absolutely love writing. So thankfully, I get to do Michael Bay movies.

Lorne Balfe

Con Air' and all these movies were what made me want to get into film and if 'Crimson Tide' is on the television, that's me for the next two hours. I'm not leaving.

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I'm a failed percussionist, you see.

Lorne Balfe

My father was a songwriter and he had a studio, and I was always surrounded by musicians and people creating music. I think I just always believed that that was a normal job, and people waking up at lunchtime and working until late at night, that to me always just was quite a normal job.

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As a composer, every project begins with either a blank sequence or a blank manuscript and for the first couple of days you cover and experience every emotion under the sun. Fear being the main one.

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Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Lorne Balfe

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