Johann Johannsson Quotes

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

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

Music in this film is a very important part.

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 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.

So I prefer to do the entire music for a film. And when I'm doing the background score, I can weave the whole film together in terms of themes and songs for a good cinematic feel.

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

In the end, you don't want music to be noticed as much as digested and integrated into the storytelling. And make audiences sit forward in their seats and enjoy the movie.

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

But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

Music is half the film.

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.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.

It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

When I work on films, I like to be involved from as early as possible. I think this is really good and beneficial in terms of absorbing the atmosphere of the film and for the music to become a part of the DNA of the film.

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

When I was composing for 'The Villain,' I looked at it as a fan and came up with tunes accordingly.

I would love to compose for an entire film because it will be a different experience.

I think that most films have too much music in them; it overwhelms an audience.

One of the first things I want do when I start writing music for a film is to create its own sound world, its own music world.

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

My films are based on themes, so I always go for theme tracks and background score.

I write music for film because I love it.