Michael Haneke Quotes

Music is half the film.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Jerry Bruckheimer is the most hands-on producer that I've worked with. Jerry's very involved in the music, and he's such a fan of film. When you watch him playing back the cues to the picture, he's like a kid in a candy store.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

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.

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

I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'

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

Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the music will intrude or waste something, that a composer will overwhelm the story.

If there is a possibility within a film to have a song in the music score that adds a little bit of zing to the music album, then why not utilise it?

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

I just think I started off like many composers, just in different fields of music I was doing. I started doing a lot of commercials and jingles, and then that led to doing TV and then films and games and TV.

Music has to be treated in the same way as set design, casting, or choice of location - it has to start at the same time.

Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.