Alexandre Desplat Quotes

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

I'd like to direct more operas.

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

I didn't know I'd ever write a Broadway musical.

Peaky' has attracted a lot of attention from different disciplines in the arts. It was originally going to be a ballet, which is Ballet Rambert, and there is also a lot of music artists who offer their music to the show to be used on the soundtrack.

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'

I want to do rock operas.

Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.