I've always been a film lover - that's why I've always wanted to write music for films. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Music can make you go from sadness to an immense sadness. There is a limit; if you go too far, it becomes… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I usually like to introduce the film and the music with the opening titles. It's a great help for a composer to… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Francois Truffaut's 'The Soft Skin' starts with a very mundane scene of a family and a man driving to the airport. Yet… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I remember when I saw 'King's Speech' or 'Girl With the Pearl Earring;' there are moments in my life where I was… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Well I never play back my music, just so you know, it's there sitting in my drawers and what I remember is… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
When a theme is beautiful, it's a pleasure to rearrange it or to interweave it with your own music. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky early on to be surrounded when I was a child by music from various countries. My parents would… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
If I wanted an open space, I could do a documentary about fishes. Then I would have an open space to play… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Some films that I love, I love them also because of the music. 'Vertigo,' for example, is a movie where the music… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I think great scores have to be noticed, but they're wrong when you hear the music come in. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I've loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It's a… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
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… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
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. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
There are some moments in your life and in your career when you meet a movie and the director that suddenly just turns you… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
The main difference I'd say is that European cinema has always used less music than American cinema for historical reasons. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
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,… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
When you work on animation, the music has a great task: to create a sound and melodies and mood and atmosphere and energy dedicated… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
My parents had a lot of movie soundtracks that they brought back from the States. So very early on I heard film music at… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
