Howard Shore famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
-- Howard Shore

#Sound #World #Orchestra
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
-- Howard Shore

#Emotional #Feelings #Want
Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.
-- Howard Shore

#Different #Kind #Film
I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.
-- Howard Shore

#Wife #Office #Tuxedos
Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.
-- Howard Shore

#Summer #Night #Acting
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

#Views #Film Music #Looks
You don't always want to be using the music in a way to express ideas inherent that are on the screen. You might want to work more around the fringes of the story, and work more with the subtext, and add more depth to the story through the use of music.
-- Howard Shore

#Ideas #Depth #Add
I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.
-- Howard Shore

#Writing #Stories #Able
The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.
-- Howard Shore

#Art #World #Film
Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.
-- Howard Shore

#Use #Want #Way
I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I try to create music that's honest and true to my heart for the story.
-- Howard Shore

#Book #Writing #Heart
I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.
-- Howard Shore

#Epic #Symphony #Interesting
I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.
-- Howard Shore

#Country #Inspiration #Film
I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.
-- Howard Shore

#Thinking #Goal #Good Movie
Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.
-- Howard Shore

#Thinking #Piano #Truthful
When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.
-- Howard Shore

#Fun #Adventure #Thinking
To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.
-- Howard Shore

#Editors #Good Relationship #Directors
I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.
-- Howard Shore

#Interesting #Research #Film
I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to feature certain paths in a certain way, whether there was dialogue in a scene, or whether there was no dialogue and music was telling the story at that point.
-- Howard Shore

#Feelings #Groups #Would Be
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
-- Howard Shore

#Piano #Pieces #Orchestra
There are many things that have stayed consistent. But the biggest change, of course, is technology, the way it's used, the way films are shot, the format that they're shot in, and the way films, of course, are edited. It's very different than it was in the past.
-- Howard Shore

#Past #Technology #Different
I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.
-- Howard Shore

#Writing #Class #Long
The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.
-- Howard Shore

#Ideas #People #Technique
The technology certainly changes. I think, in terms of making films, that's been the biggest change. But many things stay the same. I mean, there's still stories to be told. There are scripts that give you a good guide and insight into the film.
-- Howard Shore

#Mean #Technology #Thinking

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