Quotes About Film

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

I hope to do a visual for every single thing, even if it's as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

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

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.