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Alex North

"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."

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"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."

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"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."
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"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years."
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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
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