Art & Creativity Quote by Marc Newson

There's a studied casualness in Marc Newson's "actually" that gives the line its real charge. He's not announcing an influence so much as preempting a suspicion: that a high-end industrial designer would cite Bauhaus dogma, not movie scores. Film music is the most engineered kind of emotion we have - built to guide attention, pace, anticipation, relief. When Newson says he's "always listened" to it, he's signaling a lifelong comfort with design as choreography: objects and interiors that cue behavior and feeling without asking permission.

The subtext is also about legitimacy. Film scores sit in a liminal zone: hugely influential, often dismissed as background. That's a familiar position for design, too - everywhere, shaping experience, but rarely granted the cultural seriousness given to architecture or fine art. By aligning himself with film music, Newson quietly claims that "supporting" arts can be the main event: atmosphere as authorship.

Context matters: Newson's work thrives on sleek futurism, the kind that reads as cinematic even when it's a chair or a jet interior. Film music is a library of future-past moods - sci-fi wonder, mid-century optimism, corporate sheen, melancholic minimalism. It's plausible he's describing a practical habit (listening while working), but the intent lands wider: a defense of taste that isn't ashamed of mass culture. In Newson's world, the line between soundtrack and product is thin; both are precision tools for steering desire.