Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

They Were all clad in the same uniform of misery and filth. For all of time, for all of eternity

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

That’s the thing about things. They tend to happen.

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic

There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.