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 t…

- Howard Shore

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 w…

- Howard Shore

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-a…

- Howard Shore

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

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…

- Howard Shore

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 amou…

- Howard Shore

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 partic…

- Howard Shore

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

- Howard Shore

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 mu…

- Howard Shore