Alexandre Desplat Quotes

There's always that possibility. But, it would take a hell of a lot of work. Because unlike a movie where you just have to do a little ADR and then some mixing, we've actually got to bring the orchestra back because there is music, as you probably noticed, right the way through the film so you have to orchestrate all of that extra time.

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

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

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

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

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

In film, I was surprised when I first saw the movie 'Drive.' I said, 'Oh, God. It sounds great - I love it. Wow, this could be the soundtrack from 'American Gigolo' or 'Cat People.' But I'm surprised that the director would agree with a composer to write that kind of sound.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

My films are musically inclined.

I tend to spend quite a lot of time on the film scores that I do.

I'm getting to compose music for diverse language films from all over the country.

I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.

I not only composed music for my albums but also for the film 'Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh.'

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