Alexandre Desplat Quotes

Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

Some films that I love, I love them also because of the music. 'Vertigo,' for example, is a movie where the music is doing 70 percent of the job.

The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Music in this film is a very important part.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

I would love to compose for an entire film because it will be a different experience.

Movie music allows me to work with players as creatively as I can.

In the end, you don't want music to be noticed as much as digested and integrated into the storytelling. And make audiences sit forward in their seats and enjoy the movie.

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

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.