Alexandre Desplat Quotes
I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie music works. Actually I'd like to have the opportunity to conduct for the rest of my life.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
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I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.
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That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.
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For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all over each other, running up and down the isles, no one is even looking at the screen anyways, they figure they don't have to pay attention to the story anyways. We scream and yell... it's like mayhem.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.
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I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie music works. Actually I'd like to have the opportunity to conduct for the rest of my life.
