Top 1200 Film And Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I'm always happy when I learn more about communication in the wide free scope of that word. So next is a move, getting the film made and working on more music everyday which is equally large in my being as filmmaking.

Everyone enjoys music and film. It just makes people happy or makes them feel things. We're not saving peoples' lives, but if we are entertaining them, that's as much as I can contribute in this life.

All those haters, they don't understand my music. It's very unique. And I don't blame them. Hate my music. But my real cult fanbase, they like the music.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

I'm always looking at film, studying myself, comparing and contrasting with film of the great linebackers to see what I need to work on.

Success of a film is not only based on the film being good or bad. A lot of other factors are involved as well.

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

You don't set out making a film that will rake in 100 crores; you just want to make a good film.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form, for action in a film, for certain emotional content. We wanted to remove those things and see if we could still make a film that was a beautiful film experience, with deliberately removing things many people would expect.

'Newton' is a very Indian film but resonates with people all across. And that's the reason it got great response at the film festivals.

Every time you make a film, you want to do it in a genre that is different from your previous film, so that there is something fresh about it.

What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

Everyone loves to run with music in their ears, but when the music becomes adaptive, the music plays a more important role in the experience.

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.

The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.

I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I did a film about an 'around the world' yacht race with a friend, and we spent nine months on a yacht. The film was about how people get on in confined spaces under extreme stress.

'Neerja' is such a solid film. Everything about the film has substance, be it sound, writing, story, background scores, or direction.

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.

I think your behavior is different when you work on digital or film. It seems that... I feel most focused if I'm working on film.

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

After finishing my study in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), I was mentally prepared for the struggle in the film industry.

The basic idea of making this film was that even if one person is touched by the thought in the film, then my job as a storyteller is done.

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.

I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.

With the birth of social media, a film gets left behind if the actors don't go and present their film and energy to the public.

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

I'm a film maker, not a crusader. I know a film will not change the world. If it can make a difference to a few that's good enough.

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'

For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.

I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

I've become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that's not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven't completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them.

If I bring anything to the Coen Brothers' films, it's my ability to change tack and create a different mood from film to film.