Film Score

🇺🇸Jerry Goldsmith

Music

1929–2004

"The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted."

🇩🇪Ramin Djawadi

Music

b. 1974

"I truly enjoy working with other composers. You can learn a lot from each other and it's always amazing to see what the other composer comes up with."

🇺🇸Alan Menken

Music

b. 1949

"Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today is the only way to really land musically dramatic work."

🇮🇳A. R. Rahman

Music

b. 1966

"Rahman is a genius and has made the world sit up and take notice of Indian talent with his success. He has put the Indian film industry on the world map."

🇺🇸Jerome Kern

Literature

1885–1945

"Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again."

🇬🇷Vangelis

Music

1943–2022

"On concerts: "Concerts are nonsense. They create many problems: money, interests – it is hardly spontaneous. I want to feel the same pleasure that my audience experiences, otherwise it’s not honest"

🇺🇸John Williams

Music

Romanticism

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories."

🇫🇷Jean-Michel Jarre

Music

b. 1948

"I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement."

🇺🇸George Antheil

Music

1900–1959

"From Bad Boy of Music, on dealing with unruly audiences:"

🇬🇧Luke Haines

Music

b. 1967

"The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls."