Quotes About Art

As an artiste, I take up roles where there is scope to perform and that can reach out to the audience.

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

I want the score to have a really big voice.

If it's a real bad score, then it can ruin a movie for me, or, at least, it will draw a lot of my attention to the score.

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

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.

You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual.

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.

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

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

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.

I like my work to speak. Actually, I would like my work to scream!

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

An actor does not have anything to do with the business of screening films.

It's hard writing screenplays.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

Good scripts are hard to find.

There are no great scripts - just great films.