"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 was an American composer known for influential film scores, including Spartacus and A Streetcar Named Desire. He was among the early composers to integrate jazz idioms into Hollywood scoring. He died in Los Angeles in 1991.