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

Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.

The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.

I love the conversation between film and music.

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.