Allan Holdsworth Quotes

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

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar; I would love to get nominated again.

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.

I've done entire scores for I don't know how many films and series. I never kept track; I suppose it's up in the hundreds.

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of score work. That said, if someone thinks what I do specifically would work for their film, then, of course, let's see what we can do.

I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

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

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

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

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

I don't know if my songs fit in films.