104 Quotes by Alexandre Desplat

I've been very lucky early on to be surrounded when I was a child by music from various countries. My parents would listen to a lot of music coming from other universes.

There's a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create.

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.

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

I always try to do movies that are different from the ones I've done before.

The goal is to make the music really a part of the skin of the film, and not be detached.

Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words.

It was quite frightening to be asked to write the music of a Western because there are so many things that you can refer to that can be cliche, and that could really poison your mind, from Morricone, to Bernstein, to Neil Young. So much music has been written for Westerns, that you wonder how you're going to find a new or different idea.

I just write from dawn to dusk.