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Maurice Jarre Quotes

French - Composer | September 13, 1924 -

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

Music World Know Nothing Concerned

My parents did not have any interest in music.

Music Parents Interest Did Any

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

Life Time Best Theatre My Life Soon

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Work Music Man Desert Long Lost

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

Daughter Weird Used Something Eight

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Kind More Write Theme Little Hour

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Relationship Fight Little Bitter His

But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

Now Way Yes Some Did Those

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

Music Man Adventure King Frustration

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

Change Music Bad Nervous Become

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

Work Me Intention Cinema Place New

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

India Passage Movie Favourite

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