Music Quotes by Alexandre Desplat

Music is never inherently funny!

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— 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

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

— Alexandre Desplat

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

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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…

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

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The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly.

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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…

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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…

— Alexandre Desplat

I usually like to introduce the film and the music with the opening titles. It's a great help for a composer to…

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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

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…

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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.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— 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…

— Alexandre Desplat

When you work on animation, the music has a great task: to create a sound and melodies and mood and atmosphere and…

— Alexandre Desplat

Well I never play back my music, just so you know, it's there sitting in my drawers and what I remember is…

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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…

— Alexandre Desplat

I remember when I saw 'King's Speech' or 'Girl With the Pearl Earring;' there are moments in my life where I was…

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There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz…

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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…

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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…

— Alexandre Desplat

That's why I'm so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife…

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Composing is to think. It is to have your mind trying to find what is the best sound that the movie is…

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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.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

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

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I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La…

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I've been very lucky early on to be surrounded when I was a child by music from various countries. My parents would…

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I remember my sisters, they loved a movie called 'The Naked Island.' And the flute was actually playing the main theme. A…

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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…

— Alexandre Desplat

It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music…

— 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…

— Alexandre Desplat

Argo' was a very exciting project for me because I knew that I could mix together influences from my youth as a…

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— 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.

— Alexandre Desplat