Gustavo Santaolalla Quotes

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

Music is half the film.

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

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

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

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

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.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.

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

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

I think that 'The Sopranos' uses music incredibly well.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

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.

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

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

The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.

I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.