Alexandre Desplat Quotes

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

I think that 'The Sopranos' uses music incredibly well.

There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.

Music has to be treated in the same way as set design, casting, or choice of location - it has to start at the same time.

Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Music is half the film.

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

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.

Whenever I make a movie, I always try to figure out what kind of music it would be.

I just think I started off like many composers, just in different fields of music I was doing. I started doing a lot of commercials and jingles, and then that led to doing TV and then films and games and TV.

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

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

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.