Gopi Sundar Quotes

Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.

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

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?

I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result that I found it really difficult in the past to kind of hand off music to another director, 'cause it just ends up being this kind of mid-zone where it's nobody's vision, really.

Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He would strum the 11 strings on his 12-string Harptone guitar and wander to the piano and play a few bars, then off to forage for rice pudding in the kitchen.

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

It's easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that's been my experience.

I'm very lucky that I'm not a photographer for hire - people hire me for me. I go into every commercial work with an art focus, with that lens; every brand I've worked for just lets me do whatever I want to do. I have full creative freedom.

I'm very involved in the production of my songs. I know what I like and what I don't like.

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

Michael Bennett, Tommy Tune and Agnes de Mille fought to be director-choreographers. They were just not going to do it any other way because the choreographer is so often at the bottom of the creative totem pole when you put a show together. So with that power you get a more direct point-of-view and that helps something called style.

My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.

Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose.

When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything.

There would be no Static-X if I didn't write all the songs.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

I do not want to make art and then try to dictate how people use it, or how people interact with it.

It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.

As a composer, I only give directors tunes I'm happy with.