Alexandre Desplat Quotes

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

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that.

I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La Dolce Vita,' because this music has so much history. They're weighed with the history of music. They come from somewhere, they have a past.

Film music is always given a step-motherly treatment though it is the most popular form of music.

I've always been a film lover - that's why I've always wanted to write music for films.

Romanian movies are not made the same as American movies are, only because it's newer there. For instance, cigarettes, over there, are much more prominent, and Americans aren't used to that.

The soundtrack for 'Mr. Fraud' is classical with a decent level of fusion.

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

When you sit there doing a film score for three months there's no time to experiment.

Some of my favorite scores include Bernard Herrmann's Hitchcock scores.

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

In 'Secret Life of Pets,' it's a huge orchestra - really, really big.

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

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.

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 can think, probably in my head, as a child I thought I always wanted to be soldier. So action music to me is something that I just absolutely love writing. So thankfully, I get to do Michael Bay movies.

What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score, and then another might ask you to do orchestral only.