Alexandre Desplat Quotes

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Alexandre Desplat

Profession : Composer

Birth : August 23, 1961

In 'Secret Life of Pets,' it's a huge orchestra - really, really big.

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I'm being offered great movies by great directors and that's what I love, that's what I've dreamed to do, and that's what I do all day long. So I have to do it.

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Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

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Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the music will intrude or waste something, that a composer will overwhelm the story.

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I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

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Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music for films. I chose to write music because I like to write music. So every single note that comes out of my studio is written by me, and I wouldn't be able to do two movies at the same time.

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I just write from dawn to dusk.

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Every film is a human encounter. It's people trying to collaborate and create something together.

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When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

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When you work on animation, the music has a great task: to create a sound and melodies and mood and atmosphere and energy dedicated to these extraordinary characters.

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It was quite frightening to be asked to write the music of a Western because there are so many things that you can refer to that can be cliche, and that could really poison your mind, from Morricone, to Bernstein, to Neil Young. So much music has been written for Westerns, that you wonder how you're going to find a new or different idea.

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Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words.

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The goal is to make the music really a part of the skin of the film, and not be detached.

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If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.

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You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

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In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.

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Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

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I'm a flutist so I know what they can deliver in terms of texture and sound and blurriness and softness. It's a very soft instrument.

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Even when he transposes Roald Dahl's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' he injects so much of his own personality and his own world that it becomes a Wes Anderson story, and you forget that Roald Dahl is behind the story. That's the proof of great directors to be able to digest and recreate sometimes a classic.

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I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

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