Maurice Jarre

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and…

— Maurice Jarre

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

— Maurice Jarre

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

— Maurice Jarre

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my…

— Maurice Jarre

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a…

— Maurice Jarre

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and…

— Maurice Jarre

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the…

— Maurice Jarre

My parents did not have any interest in music.

— Maurice Jarre

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

— Maurice Jarre

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

— Maurice Jarre

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

— Maurice Jarre

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter…

— Maurice Jarre

But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

— Maurice Jarre