I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to milli…

- Elmer Bernstein

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the n…

- Elmer Bernstein

I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

- Elmer Bernstein

All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if y…

- Elmer Bernstein

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

- Elmer Bernstein

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much mor…

- Elmer Bernstein

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score.…

- Elmer Bernstein

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I…

- Elmer Bernstein

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

- Elmer Bernstein