Howard Shore Quotes & Sayings

“I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.”

“Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.”

“'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.”

“It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world.”

“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.”

“I think 'Two Towers' is a completely distinct film from 'Fellowship of the Ring' or 'Return of the King.' I think that you can watch them as a group and watch how the story evolves, but I think each one was made in its own entirety, and each one has its own palate of sound and music and color and characterization.”

“I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?”

“Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.”

“You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.”

“A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.”