Maurice Jarre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.
-- Maurice Jarre

#Years #Lucky
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.
-- Maurice Jarre

#Kings #Adventure #Frustration
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
-- Maurice Jarre

#Writing #Littles #Kind
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
-- Maurice Jarre

#India #Favourite #Passages
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.
-- Maurice Jarre

#Stay Strong #Men #Long
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.
-- Maurice Jarre

#Years #Interesting #Theatre
When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.
-- Maurice Jarre

#World #Concerned
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.
-- Maurice Jarre

#Thinking #Usual #Assuming
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.
-- Maurice Jarre

#Fighting #Littles #Bitterness
For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.
-- Maurice Jarre

#Daughter #Mother #Eight
My parents did not have any interest in music.
-- Maurice Jarre

#Parent #Interest

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