The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.
- Alex North
Some, Acceptable, Turned, Subsidy
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
- Alex North
Experience, Best, Film, Kazan
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.
- Alex North
TV, Decent, Composers, Friday
There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.
- Alex North
Getting, Involved, Scores, Objectively
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.
- Alex North
Two, Like, Familiarity, Resulting
Today it's not culture; it's box office.
- Alex North
Today, Culture, Box, Box Office
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
- Alex North
Art, Films, Film Music, Bankrupt
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
- Alex North
Country, Go, Soviet Union, Union
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
- Alex North
Like, Radical, Films, Relate
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