Argo Quote by Alexandre Desplat

I like to mix influences from different eras, like maybe '70s bell-bottoms, something fun from the '80s, or a bit of '90s grunge.

— Ashley Roberts

I think, when you're a young composer, you're told constantly that what you're supposed to do is figure out what your voice is. "What…

— David Lang

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it.

— Simon Rattle

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing…

— Michael Hersch

I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I…

— Pauly Shore

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

— Frank Dobson

It's like, if someone asks me to do something and it seems like a really exciting project, but I maybe really frightened about it,…

— Lisa Stansfield

There's nothing more exciting than to have a project that you like, that you're proud of, and you're waiting for that validation for the…

— Will Packer

Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

— Philip Kaufman

'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.

— Tate Donovan

Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a…

— David Edelstein

I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,'…

— Ben Affleck