Ridley Scott Quotes

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

More than just music, the splash of water or a lone footstep can put you in the moment. Sound is just another tool in the developer's toolbox to draw the player further into the game.

I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.

'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.

I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.

Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.

We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don't use it overboard by any means. The most important thing is the music. I think we do a good job of letting that show.

I want my films to be very tactile, visually and sonically.

I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten me out of a lot of jams, over the years. So, music for me is a very big thing in films and I use it unashamedly.

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost like with sound and music and images, it's your tool to tell the story, especially when I decide to structure the film in a way that usually goes against the conventions of the three-act structure which most films are made out of.

I really have fun doing music for visuals and stuff.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.