Mohit Chauhan Quotes

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

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

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

I like to write film music that stands on its own.

I write music for film because I love it.

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

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

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.

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 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.

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

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs to be repeatable and joyous.

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

Most films don't have a budget for a background score, but it is the toughest job to do. We work like donkeys. And usually we get only around a month to do a score.

I always relish the idea of collaborating with the director on creating the sound world, the sound spectrum, and the sound environment of the film. I use every means at my disposal to create a score that is as strong and powerful to enhance the director's vision for the film.

I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements.

My films are musically inclined.

Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.

I not only composed music for my albums but also for the film 'Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh.'

Well I think usually I would do six or even 10 scores a year. Some are big films and some are not.