Maurice Jarre Quotes

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• The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also…
• For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.
• With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
• I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.
• Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if…
• When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.
• Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most…
• In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend…
• A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
• I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
• My parents did not have any interest in music.
• Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes…
• But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

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