Henry Mancini Quotes

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

My films are musically inclined.

I just love what Nicholas Britell did with 'Moonlight.'

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Music in this film is a very important part.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.

It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.

I personally like melodies. And Mani Sharma garu is the Melody Brahma.

So I prefer to do the entire music for a film. And when I'm doing the background score, I can weave the whole film together in terms of themes and songs for a good cinematic feel.

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

I would love to compose for an entire film because it will be a different experience.

Composing music for 'Mungaru Male 2' is a big responsibility and challenge.

Movie music allows me to work with players as creatively as I can.

My films are based on themes, so I always go for theme tracks and background score.

Godzilla' took two months because it required a two-hour-plus score. 'Imitation Game' was three weeks.

For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.