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So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

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My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

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I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

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I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Composer

Born: February 24th, 1932

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