Alexandre Desplat

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

— Alexandre Desplat

Music is never inherently funny!

— Alexandre Desplat

Certainly 'Zero Dark Thirty' is not for children!

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Alexandre Desplat

I just write from dawn to dusk.

— Alexandre Desplat

You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Alexandre Desplat

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

— Alexandre Desplat

Every film is a human encounter. It's people trying to collaborate and create something together.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— 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.

— Alexandre Desplat

Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Alexandre Desplat

As a child brought up in Paris, I dreamed of America, that lost world my parents had left behind - it was…

— Alexandre Desplat

I saw the finished version of 'The French Dispatch' quite a while ago, and it's just amazing. It's so incredibly strong and…

— Alexandre Desplat

I'm a flutist so I know what they can deliver in terms of texture and sound and blurriness and softness. It's a…

— 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…

— Alexandre Desplat

On 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' I must insist that the sounds of the instrumentation are crucial to reflect what the movie should…

— Alexandre Desplat

A film is a film and it has to be good to be inspired. That's number one. It can be Italian, French,…

— 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…

— Alexandre Desplat

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

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

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

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 always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas…

— Alexandre Desplat

I knew how incredibly rich 'Valerian' was visually and the adventures the heroes go through. They are one of a kind. They…

— Alexandre Desplat

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I…

— 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…

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Alexandre Desplat

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

— Alexandre Desplat

It's not easy to write an understated score over a loud one.

— Alexandre Desplat

In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.

— Alexandre Desplat

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

— 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

Well I think usually I would do six or even 10 scores a year. Some are big films and some are not.

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Alexandre Desplat

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

— Alexandre Desplat