Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.

We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish.

A good proof is one that makes us wiser.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

I have been doing this for eight years now so the negative things do not effect me as much as they did at the beginning.