39 Quotes by Cliff Martinez

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the direction you will go in. I welcome things that challenge me.

I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.