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Continue to ChatHere is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. 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. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him. - Michel Legrand from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/here-is-how-i-work-when-i-think-that-a-film-needs-to-have-a-principal-theme-i-search-for-a-melody-i-have-a