I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.