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Alexandre Desplat: 'The great directors, I've learned, have a great sense of rhythm.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'We will always hear the vibrations of Ennio's music and feel it in our hearts.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'Well I think usually I would do six or even 10 scores a year. Some are big films and some are not.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'I just write from dawn to dusk.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'I have no favorite museum, but it could be the National Gallery in London; it could be the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Every city has a great museum.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'It's not about what's a good or bad score at the Oscars, rather what's exposed to the ears more.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'Music can make you go from sadness to an immense sadness. There is a limit; if you go too far, it becomes schmaltzy.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'Without fear you can't explore or push yourself beyond what you've done.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'My parents had a lot of movie soundtracks that they brought back from the States. So very early on I heard film music at home.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'Argo' was a very exciting project for me because I knew that I could mix together influences from my youth as a young musician and a young composer.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'There's a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create.'

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Alexandre Desplat: 'You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.'

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Claude Monet: 'Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.'

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Claude Monet: 'I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.'

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Claude Monet: 'I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.'

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Claude Monet: 'I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.'

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