I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.