47 Quotes by Howard Shore

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

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

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.