Award Quote by Alexandre Desplat

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— 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 tried to…

— 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

I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Alexandre Desplat

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

I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

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