54 Quotes by James Newton Howard

In most multiple composer situations, you find it because someone got nervous about the music and insisted that somebody else come in and help.

I am delighted just to work on a good movie, no matter what the medium is.

Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

I've been lucky to have been given opportunities in different genres. And most of the time I've felt that the exploration, the composing, the collaboration, was a move forward.

It's easy for me to write a quasi-virtuosic orchestral score. What is harder is to do that and say, all right, that works, but how else can you do it?

That's what keeps me going: those moments of solving a problem, of what happens to a movie when the right music is added - and what happens to the music when the movie's working with it.

The trick with 'Nutcracker' was figure out how much, and where, we could the Tchaikovsky - using as much as we possibly could and still support the storytelling.

Like most people, I hate public speaking.

I tend to avoid interviews, I don't have a publicist and fear of failure is still very much alive in my personal life.