I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

Sounds mean nothing without music.

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap.

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.