Alexandre Desplat Quotes

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Alexandre Desplat

Profession : Composer

Birth : August 23, 1961

Without fear you can't explore or push yourself beyond what you've done.

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Berlin was the first, the very first to give me an award. I am eternally grateful to them. It sits on my desk - the Silver Bear. All the others are stored away. It's the only one I look at. It watches me while I work.

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I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements.

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Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in plateaus.

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There are some moments in your life and in your career when you meet a movie and the director that suddenly just turns you to another dimension.

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You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.

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Certainly 'Zero Dark Thirty' is not for children!

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It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

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Some films that I love, I love them also because of the music. 'Vertigo,' for example, is a movie where the music is doing 70 percent of the job.

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I've scored all the movies that Jacques Audiard has directed. It's a long love story between us, trying to find a voice that would belong to his films only.

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Music is never inherently funny!

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Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch of lightness, which is the most difficult thing to do.

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When a theme is beautiful, it's a pleasure to rearrange it or to interweave it with your own music.

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When you have the chance to work with Wes Anderson, with Stephen Frears and Chris Weitz and Roman Polanski and Terrance Malick you don't say no.

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Music can make you go from sadness to an immense sadness. There is a limit; if you go too far, it becomes schmaltzy.

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As a child brought up in Paris, I dreamed of America, that lost world my parents had left behind - it was in my genes. Plus, American music has always been close to my own aesthetic, because of the mix of symphonic music with jazz.

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My parents had a lot of movie soundtracks that they brought back from the States. So very early on I heard film music at home.

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Godzilla' took two months because it required a two-hour-plus score. 'Imitation Game' was three weeks.

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Argo' was a very exciting project for me because I knew that I could mix together influences from my youth as a young musician and a young composer.

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I think great scores have to be noticed, but they're wrong when you hear the music come in.

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