Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

- Alex North

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under …

- Alex North

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art,…

- Alex North

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

- Alex North

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made cert…

- Alex North

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

- Alex North

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

- Alex North