Maurice Jarre Professions : Film Score Composer Born : September 13, 1924 Died : March 28, 2009 Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Maurice Jarre I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year. Maurice Jarre lucky years 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 assuming usual thinking 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 travel I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written. Maurice Jarre kind writing littles 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 bitterness fighting littles A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie. Maurice Jarre passages favourite india 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 theatre years interesting When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music. Maurice Jarre concerned knows world For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird. Maurice Jarre eight daughter mother My parents did not have any interest in music. Maurice Jarre interest parent But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them. Maurice Jarre yes some now way 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. Maurice Jarre place me cinema work Similar Authors Anne Dudley film-score-composer Andrew Barrett film-score-composer Bernard Herrmann film-score-composer Ivor Novello film-score-composer Don Davis film-score-composer Howard Shore film-score-composer All Authors
