My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.

Alexandre Desplat

I'm scared each time I start a movie, believe me. There's always a moment of panic when you're not sure if you're going to be able to meet the deadline.

Alexandre Desplat

I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.

Alexandre Desplat

I guess the passion I have for cinema is as strong as the one that I have for music. And I've always tried to be a character in the film, not just a composer that throws his music to the film. That's the main element that connects me with directors.

Alexandre Desplat

Composing is to think. It is to have your mind trying to find what is the best sound that the movie is going for: the best melody, the best texture, the best structure and dramaturgic arc for the film. Then you discuss that with the director. He's the leader. He's the one showing you the path to follow to find the soul of the film.

Alexandre Desplat

I've been very lucky early on to be surrounded when I was a child by music from various countries. My parents would listen to a lot of music coming from other universes.

Alexandre Desplat

I was raised by women. I have my parents, but I have two older sisters and I would learn from them about what is a female and what is a girl and what is an adolescent and what is a young woman and I was very close to them.

Alexandre Desplat

To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.

Alexandre Desplat

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

Alexandre Desplat

My education as a film composer, you can't not - if you like the orchestra like I do, if you are a symphonist like I am - you can't not listen to John Williams' work.

Alexandre Desplat

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

Alexandre Desplat

It's most difficult to score a comedy. Where are the limits? When does music become gimmicky or stupidly funny?

Alexandre Desplat

I always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.

Alexandre Desplat

When Wes has a new a project, you know that it's going to be something as different as the previous was from the previous one. Each time, he tries to take you to a country, or a land that is unknown for you and for him, and reinvent this land. That's what he did with 'Darjeeling,' with 'Mr. Fox,' with 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

Alexandre Desplat

I saw the finished version of 'The French Dispatch' quite a while ago, and it's just amazing. It's so incredibly strong and different... the way that Wes is expanding his talents to another dimension with each film is just wow.

Alexandre Desplat

I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La Dolce Vita,' because this music has so much history. They're weighed with the history of music. They come from somewhere, they have a past.

Alexandre Desplat

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

Alexandre Desplat

Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become.

Alexandre Desplat

I played the piccolo in the 'Ides of March' and 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' score.

Alexandre Desplat

I've loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It's a country that I love, and a culture that I love.

Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat Quotes

My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.

I'm scared each time I start a movie, believe me. There's always a moment of panic when you're not sure if you're going to be able to meet the deadline.

I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.

I guess the passion I have for cinema is as strong as the one that I have for music. And I've always tried to be a character in the film, not just a composer that throws his music to the film. That's the main element that connects me with directors.

I've been very lucky early on to be surrounded when I was a child by music from various countries. My parents would listen to a lot of music coming from other universes.

I was raised by women. I have my parents, but I have two older sisters and I would learn from them about what is a female and what is a girl and what is an adolescent and what is a young woman and I was very close to them.

To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

My education as a film composer, you can't not - if you like the orchestra like I do, if you are a symphonist like I am - you can't not listen to John Williams' work.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

It's most difficult to score a comedy. Where are the limits? When does music become gimmicky or stupidly funny?

I always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.

I saw the finished version of 'The French Dispatch' quite a while ago, and it's just amazing. It's so incredibly strong and different... the way that Wes is expanding his talents to another dimension with each film is just wow.

I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La Dolce Vita,' because this music has so much history. They're weighed with the history of music. They come from somewhere, they have a past.

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become.

I played the piccolo in the 'Ides of March' and 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' score.

I've loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It's a country that I love, and a culture that I love.