Alexandre Desplat Quotes

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Blue' is actually my favorite chapter because it captures sadness more than the other chapters. That might sound weird but I've always been drawn to the rawest emotions.

When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

I write emotional music.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

The stage is like a magnifier of thoughts and emotion and vibration; that's what the stage is incredible for because it makes you live other lives. It makes you experience other emotions. It makes you feel more beautiful or more alone or more angry. It makes you feel much more, more, more.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's celebratory or whether it's conflicted.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears - you want that full range of emotion.

I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.