Jonny Greenwood Quotes

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

It is so beautiful that when you watch the film, the marriage between the visuals, the music and the storytelling is seamless.

The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.

I think apart from the new spectacle that 'Chapter Two' brings compared to the first one, the scope, scale, bigger canvas, I'm proud of the emotional journey.

Every film is a journey.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good looking that we don't appreciate the craft as much as we used to in the bygone era.

I've always enjoyed film, but I'm a little afraid of it because I think it is very powerful as a medium. You have the visuals, the sound, the colors, all of these things coming at you, and they transport you physically so it becomes this surround sound, virtual reality.

Writing a screenplay's not rocket science, but I was in a bar, and the bartender came up to me and said, 'I saw 'Night at the Museum,' and the thing about him and his kid brought me and my kid together.' Something like that... it's like, 'Oh, right. That's why we're doing it.'

Some films that I love, I love them also because of the music. 'Vertigo,' for example, is a movie where the music is doing 70 percent of the job.

I personally think montages are one of movies' great gifts to everyone. I think they're so much fun and so effective when done right.

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

In 'Biwi No 1,' I made you laugh. In 'Sirf Tum,' I made you cry. In 'Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai,' I am going to make you dream.

For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.

Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.

It was a completely different experience working on 'Chhichhore' with Nitesh sir. The way he narrates and the way he directs actors is completely unique. He has that rare quality of blending a great story with finely-etched characters and an underlying message.

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.

Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.

I want to make the movies that move people in a way they've never been moved before.