For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present...

In our society, unless something can be measured then it doesn't exist. This is especially true in the world of medicine.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.