Quotes by Elmer Bernstein - Page 1

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Harry
Joe
Patently
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I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Enthusiasm
Ready
Terms
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I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Pessimistic
Summer
Generally
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I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Grey
List
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You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Balanced
Supportive
Time Me Parents
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It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Associates
Work Great World
Great Way
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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 next person wants you to repeat it.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Strange
Repeat
Strange Thing
Success Is
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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 millions of people. I found it thrilling.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Instant
Millions
Occasional
Score
Thrilling
Millions Of People
Right Away
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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 worked very hard not to type myself.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Rock And Roll
Music Myself Always
Music Myself Way
Date
Compete
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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 more direct association with the emotions.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Association
Direct
Intimate
Prefer
Comedies
Westerns
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When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Colleagues
Contact
Alienated
Nowadays
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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. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
Elmer Bernstein / Composer
Commandments
Golden
Ill
Score
Ten
Ten Commandments
Arm
Dances
Same Time
Victor
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