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• ‟ I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.

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• ‟ Music needs room to breathe.

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• ‟ When I have to score a film, I watch the movie first and then start thinking about it. And from that moment on, it is as if I were pregnant. I then have to deliver the child, so from that moment on, I think always about the music - even when I go to the grocery store, I think about it.

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• ‟ I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it has to be listened to, played by the instruments, and then heard by the director, but most importantly, it has to be listened to by the public.

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• ‟ I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.

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• ‟ In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.

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• ‟ If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.

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• ‟ I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.

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• ‟ I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.

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• ‟ I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

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• ‟ My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

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• ‟ De Palma is delicious! He respects music; he respects composers. For 'The Untouchables,' everything I proposed to him was fine, but then he wanted a piece that I didn't like at all, and of course we didn't have an agreement on that. It was something I didn't want to write - a triumphal piece for the police.

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• ‟ I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.

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• ‟ I like composing music, but I love being with my family.

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• ‟ Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

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