Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it’s over, it still continues growing up in plateaus. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote
I was raised by women. I have my parents, but I have two older sisters and I would learn from them about what is a female and what is a girl and what is an adolescent and what is a young woman and I was very close to them. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote
When I was 15, I was not living with my parents anymore. They were on an island in the Caribbean and I was back in Paris, where I lived with my sisters between 15 and 19. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote
I usually like to introduce the film and the music with the opening titles. It’s a great help for a composer to bring the audience into the work that we’re going into. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote
When you have the chance to work with Wes Anderson, with Stephen Frears and Chris Weitz and Roman Polanski and Terrance Malick you don’t say no. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote
I always try to develop a good relationship with the director on any film and make sure that we want the same things and we’re talking about the same ideas, and that gives me great protection. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote
Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It’s deep emotion with a touch of lightness, which is the most difficult thing to do. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote
You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there’s this magic combination. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote
I’m not a script composer. I’m a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements. Alexandre Desplat Read Quote