39 Quotes by Cliff Martinez

When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.

If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.

Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.

If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.