Elmer Bernstein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Ideas #Composer #Jerry
I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Years #Car #Association
I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Black #Proud #Way
I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#People #Made #Found
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Summer #America #Pessimistic
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Successful #Want #Next
There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Rap #Writing #Rocks
Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Today #Ridiculous #Film
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Writing #Men #Arms
All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Cat #Moon #Devil

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