Krzysztof Penderecki Quotes

A dream of mine is to write a 'Bond' theme tune.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

Film music is always given a step-motherly treatment though it is the most popular form of music.

As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like 'Charade,' 'Moon River,' 'Wine and Roses,' 'Dear Heart' - they were all just themes that grew out of the picture.

Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you're going to do the job you always do, it ends up being a 'Bond' movie and a sense of what it is to put music to James Bond and to honor the music that exists.

The Saina Nehwal film's soundtrack is one of the most prestigious and powerful scores I have worked on.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

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

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of 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.

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

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

Whenever I watch a movie I like to imagine what sort of music I might compose for a scene, to create a particular kind of atmosphere, because when I see something I hear something.