Maurice Jarre Quotes

• I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

  Maurice Jarre

  Years, Lucky

  Maurice Jarre's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 25, 1985.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  Travel, Kings, Adventure

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

  Maurice Jarre

  Daughter, Mother, Eight

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• 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

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• A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

  Maurice Jarre

  India, Favourite, Passages

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• 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

  "Maurice Jarre" by Patrick O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

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

  Maurice Jarre

  World, Concerned, Knows

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• My parents did not have any interest in music.

  Maurice Jarre

  Parent, Interest

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