Maurice Jarre

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

— Maurice Jarre

#india #movie #passage

But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

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

— Maurice Jarre

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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

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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

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My parents did not have any interest in music. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

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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

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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

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

— Maurice Jarre

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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

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