It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a conceptual, directorial conversation about wh…

- Henry Jackman

In the sometimes ridiculous action scenarios you're laughing out loud, and so the more committed and in fact the more highbrow the music is, the funn…

- Henry Jackman

To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold dust. I mean, not necessarily stylistically…

- Henry Jackman

If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what you're doing, don't ever become a film co…

- Henry Jackman

Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it. They are such good directors…

- Henry Jackman

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

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so m…

- Henry Jackman