Elmer Bernstein Quotes
- Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.
- I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate…
- I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.
- I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it…
- I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
- One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something…
- There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept…
- Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
- Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired…
- It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends…
- I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
- When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated…
- You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house…