Top 29 Elmer Bernstein Quotes
#1. 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
#2. This is what comes of making up conversations with frescoes, he chided himself as he dropped to his knees and bowed his head. Nothing but trouble.
Suzanne Harper
#3. Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
Elmer Bernstein
#4. 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 you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list.
Elmer Bernstein
#5. A gifted wizard, but an unlikely politician, McLaird was an exceptionally taciturn man who preferred to communicate in monosyllables and expressive puffs of smoke that he produced through the end of his wand. Forced from office out of sheer irritation at his eccentricities.
J.K. Rowling
#6. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#7. Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.
Elmer Bernstein
#9. Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.
Robert Charles Wilson
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#15. 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
#16. Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle
#18. An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.
Martin Scorsese
#19. I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
Elmer Bernstein
#20. A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
Walter Gropius
#21. A person can want love all they want, but if they don't figure out who they are and learn to love their own self first, they'll never stay in love.
Marilyn Grey
#22. What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying the burden of their struggles, their questions about themselves.
Tobias Wolff
#23. Yes, the party had been delightful, but there was more to the world than that. Bigger things, more beautiful things, more real things.
Sarah J. Maas
#24. Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
Soren Kierkegaard
#25. 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
#26. When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
Walter Savage Landor
#27. 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
#28. I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.
Elmer Bernstein
#29. I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
Elmer Bernstein
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