A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

I like having deadlines... a film release date or a concert premiere date. It channels one's energy into doing often remarkable work that oceans of extra time would probably not improve upon.

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

Someone's opinion can be right on target, or it also could be cluttered with their doubts. Therefore, be careful, do not make someone else's opinion your law.

I’ll live out my whole life as a voice with no one listening.

Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

When I have a daughter I have a lot of good advice for her.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.