Marco Beltrami Quotes

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

I've done some scoring in the past, but I want to get into it on a bigger level - a Danny Elfman level.

My experience and growth in the film music world and the time I've spent studying legendary film composers have given me depth of insight into how music can inspire a range of emotions.

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.

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

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

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

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

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.

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

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 really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.

I had difficulty in grasping how music was made for films. It was a huge learning curve and the toughest phase of my life.

I'm getting to compose music for diverse language films from all over the country.

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.

Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become.

Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is so much talk. Music gives the film another dimension, if it's done with the story in mind.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.

I try and write a fair amount in the beginning without the movie. And then when I do get the movie I create these demos, just mock-ups, and I throw them up against the picture and some of it sticks and some of it doesn't. But I'm very careful before I play anything to picture, because that's such a profoundly important moment.

As a film composer I deal with short bursts of musical ideas that are defined to a large extent by what's happening on the screen, by not only narrative and action, but staying out of the way of dialogue, sound effects.

Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music for films. I chose to write music because I like to write music. So every single note that comes out of my studio is written by me, and I wouldn't be able to do two movies at the same time.