Alexandre Desplat Quotes

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

I've done some scoring in the past, but I want to get into it on a bigger level - a Danny Elfman level.

I had difficulty in grasping how music was made for films. It was a huge learning curve and the toughest phase of my life.

My experience and growth in the film music world and the time I've spent studying legendary film composers have given me depth of insight into how music can inspire a range of emotions.

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.

Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become.

I am only 30, and music is like a subject for me. I work like a student in every film.

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

I write music for film because I love it.

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.

I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.