“I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just ...” — Marco Beltrami Quote

“I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies.”

“I am inspired just by the way a scene can be interpreted by the actors. It can make a huge difference on the type of music that you write. It's best for me if I don't work at all on a project until the movie is shot and I have some sort of edit in front of me.”

“There's this whole other element of film scoring, which is the social and psychological side of how you're dealing with people... And that is not always in sync with what's right for the picture.”

“'The Homesman' is a really interesting movie that Tommy Lee Jones directed.”

“To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.”

“One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.”

“I come from a wrestling background - my father and grandfather were into wrestling.”

“Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background.”

“She was a lioness. She was described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. She needed that culture and background to survive in the world of Hollywood where you have to fight for everything.”

“I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.”

“Certainly, gospel was my background - is my background.”

“I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.”