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…

- Maurice Jarre

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

- Maurice Jarre

My parents did not have any interest in music.

- Maurice Jarre

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

- Maurice Jarre

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 a…

- Maurice Jarre

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

- Maurice Jarre

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight be…

- Maurice Jarre

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…

- Maurice Jarre

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

- Maurice Jarre