In writing the score and with the psychological approach that he used, imagining and then expressing each emotion of the characters' interior lives as the story progressed, Benny [Herrmann] had fallen in love with the character Geneviève played in the film. When she "left," it was as if he had experienced a grievous personal loss.

— A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More by Paul Hirsch (Page 70 - 71)