Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.
Jerry GoldsmithThe fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.
Jerry GoldsmithIf our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
Jerry GoldsmithOriginally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.
Jerry Goldsmith