Quotes About Creativity

A.R. Rahman is not a musician, he is a musical scientist, and when he gives advice, you need to take it seriously.

I tell people all the time, I'm Mix-A-Lot. I'm not a rocket scientist.

Oneohtrix Point Never

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.

When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.

I love science fiction just because of the scope of what it can be.

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

I want the score to have a really big voice.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

I think 'Easy Rider' might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral score. No one had really used found music in a movie before, except to play on radios or when someone was singing in a scene.

If you listen to a score from beginning to end, you should envision the entire film in your head.

If you have a bad story on your hands, you have a bad story on your hands, and no amount of score re-working is gonna save that.

When I was a kid, there was no DVD, no VHS. The only way to re-live a movie once it was out of the theater was to listen to its film score.

Well I think usually I would do six or even 10 scores a year. Some are big films and some are not.

I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

I listen to a lot of music from outside, lot of background scores.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won't do it. I need help with the words.

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

Do I wish I was Martin Scorsese? Yeah. But am I really proud of the movies I've made and really happy that I get to keep making them? Yes.

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.