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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!' — Caitlyn Jenner

I can't really say that film music inspired me; it is more the films themselves, in connection with the music. — Volker Bertelmann

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice. — Ahmet Ertegun

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — Melvin Van Peebles

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. — John Kander

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about. — Mandy Moore

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter? — Bryan Adams

I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters. — Lenny Abrahamson

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be. — Martin Scorsese

Piracy begins where creativity ends. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. — Todd Haynes

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea. — Lenny Kravitz

There is a Pirate in every one of us. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like. — Volker Bertelmann

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished. — John Grooters

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob. — Simon Cowell

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

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience. — Alessandro Nivola

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all! — Chanel Iman

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. — Jennifer Lopez

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together. — James Genn

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining. — Stewart Copeland

The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character. — Bob Mondello

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe. — Teresa Palmer

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial. — Vera Farmiga

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. — Frank Capra

Love is alive when there's music in your heart. — A.D. Posey

When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about. — Kazuo Ishiguro

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores. — Paul Wardingham

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film. — Giuseppe Andrews

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it. — Howard Shore

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around. — Bahman Ghobadi

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film. — Carson Daly

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film. — Michelle Williams

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music. — Penelope Spheeris

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

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in. — Vanessa Brown

I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics. — James Brolin

Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life. — Matt Sorum

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually. — Marc Newson

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real. — Jennifer Hudson

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

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning. — Drake Doremus

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play. — John Van Hamersveld

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. — Mike Figgis

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable. — Christopher Nolan

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes. — Clarice Lispector

A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. — Alan Rickman

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film. — Howard Shore

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. — Bruce Springsteen

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. — Phil Ramone

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives. — Francis Ford Coppola

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

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event. — Stewart Copeland

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it. — Carter Burwell

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films. — Jenny Hval

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer. — Bear McCreary

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. — Carter Burwell

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist. — Claudio Simonetti

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen. — Fred Durst

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. — Jonathan Demme

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

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

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it. — LL Cool J

We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it. — David Chase

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film. — Austin Butler

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson

Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa — John Powell

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life. — Alicia Keys

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something. — Henry Jackman

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk. — Peter Jackson

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. — Ingmar Bergman

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert. — June Allyson

Music in this film is a very important part. — Maximilian Schell

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time. — Howard Shore

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film. — O'Shea Jackson Jr.

I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know? — Tony Garnett

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff. — Ziad Doueiri

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks. — Martin Gore

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music. — MEDVGNO

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion. — Andy Samberg

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films. — SonReal

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion. — Jeffrey Deitch

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world. — Domhnall Gleeson

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

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film. — Tavi Gevinson

I would say music, film, and talented people inspire me. — Mpho Koaho

Music is half the film. — Matthew Vaughn

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music. — Kailash Kher

The arts translate life into film and literature and music and repeat a deadly poison: the monotonous in life must be protected at all costs. — Morrissey

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me. — Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study. — LeCrae

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar! — Gerard De Marigny

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really. — Kate Bush

I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together. — Kate Bush

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. — Ahmed Best

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading. — Igor Stravinsky