Alexandre Desplat Quotes

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Alexandre Desplat

Profession : Composer

Birth : August 23, 1961

Yea, there is no way you can get away from critics. It's all over the net. Sometimes it's useful to read things, good or bad. Sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it stupid because they say stupid things.

Alexandre Desplat

That's the main lesson I've learned from working in the theater: respect the dramaturgy. I don't want to overwhelm everything with music.

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I usually like to introduce the film and the music with the opening titles. It's a great help for a composer to bring the audience into the work that we're going into.

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I always try to do movies that are different from the ones I've done before.

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I lived in the Caribbean when I was a teenager, so I learned about Salsa and Cha-Cha and all these Latin Afro-Cuban music like Gillespie and Duke Ellington, also bridged with Jazz. But my mother is Greek, and so I've also listened a lot to Greek music. And through the years to Balcanic music to Arabic music because my father loved music from Egypt.

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French horn can be very epic, and at the same time, very dark and moving.

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We will always hear the vibrations of Ennio's music and feel it in our hearts.

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I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

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I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

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It's not unusual to have only three weeks to score a picture. And that's three weeks from signing on to finishing the last recording session. That's how I did 'The Queen' and, more recently, it's how I did 'The Imitation Game.'

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The great directors, I've learned, have a great sense of rhythm.

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If I wanted an open space, I could do a documentary about fishes. Then I would have an open space to play my music. That's not how I visualize the work I'm doing.

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It's not about what's a good or bad score at the Oscars, rather what's exposed to the ears more.

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The main difference I'd say is that European cinema has always used less music than American cinema for historical reasons.

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I've never been into monster movies, not my cup of tea.

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I've always been a film lover - that's why I've always wanted to write music for films.

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I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that will bring hands to write or to play. So, it's really a combination of many things; hearing sounds, hearing layers of counterpoints, of chords.

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For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background.

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On 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' I must insist that the sounds of the instrumentation are crucial to reflect what the movie should convey in terms of energy and emotion. It's not just the melody or the tune.

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