Sinqua Walls Quotes

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Whenever I make a movie, I always try to figure out what kind of music it would be.

Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.

Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

I have an eclectic pallet of music that I listen to. It depends on my mood.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

Music inflames temperament.

There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.

I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.