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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
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Favourite
India
Passages
Passage
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I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.
Maurice Jarre / Film Score Composer
Lucky
Years
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My parents did not have any interest in music.
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Interest
Parent
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But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.
Maurice Jarre / Film Score Composer
Soundtracks
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When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.
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Concerned
Knows
World
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For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.
Maurice Jarre / Film Score Composer
Daughter
Eight
Harps
Mother
Weird
Harp
Ryan
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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 / Film Score Composer
Kind
Littles
Theme
Waltz
Writing
Began
Hour
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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 / Film Score Composer
Bitter
Bitterness
Composer
Fighting
Hitchcock
Littles
Torn
Bernard
Curtain
Replace
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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 / Film Score Composer
Men
Desert
Long
Rescue
Scene
Sequence
Stay Strong
Extend
Lawrence
Listened
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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 / Film Score Composer
Interesting
Prestigious
Theater
Theatre
Twelve
Years
Life Time Best
Best Time
Life Best Time
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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 / Film Score Composer
Assuming
Masterpiece
Nervous
Thinking
Usual
Change Music Always
Assumes
Executive
Nowadays
Studio
Thinks
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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 / Film Score Composer
Kings
Travel
Adventure
Curse
Frustration
Majestic
Protagonists
Emphasize
Recreate
Surrounding
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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 / Film Score Composer
Cinema
Including
Intention
Preparing
Work Me New
Work Me Cinema
Bach
Executive
Soundtrack
Themes
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