Alex North Quotes

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

[...] a woman with a million things to do, determined to do each of them herself.

What are we doing, Jake?" she whispered.
"I don't know".
"What are being?"
Now he understood.
"Brave," he whispered back. "We're being brave.

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

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands ... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

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

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Sometimes people want things to be more complicated than they really are.

That thought was so much better. It was the difference between regret and relief, between a cold hearth full of dead, gray ash and a fire that was still alight.

Yes. That's a sensible way of looking at it. People worry too much about the nature of things. Sometimes it's better just to go with them.

I liked it when people were impressed with my son; it made me feel proud of him. Stupid to think that way, of course--he was a person in his own right, not some accomplishment of mine--but the feeling was always there, and, if anything, with my father it was stronger than usual. I wasn't sure why.

Battles often make more sense from the sky.

The world was full of bad men. Full of bad dreams that didn't always happen when you were asleep.

If you leave a door half open, soon you'll hear the whispers spoken.
If you play outside alone, soon you won't be going home.
If your window's left unlatched, you'll hear him tapping at the glass.
If you're lonely, sad, and blue, the Whisper Man will come for you.

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 these conditions.

It was a daunting prospect, because it was all such a jumble, and there was also so much I didn't know and perhaps never would. But then again, I wasn't sure that in itself was a problem. The truth of something can be in the feeling of it as much as the fact.