Eric Fellner Quotes

Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard.

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

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

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

I think of myself as a film composer.

I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.

As a film composer, you have to be a good collaborator.

There's always that possibility. But, it would take a hell of a lot of work. Because unlike a movie where you just have to do a little ADR and then some mixing, we've actually got to bring the orchestra back because there is music, as you probably noticed, right the way through the film so you have to orchestrate all of that extra time.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

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.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.

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 can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.

I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.