“I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited...” — Alexandre Desplat Quote

“I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements.”

“When you have the chance to work with Wes Anderson, with Stephen Frears and Chris Weitz and Roman Polanski and Terrance Malick you don't say no.”

“I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.”

“I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.”

“If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?”

“Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.”