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.

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

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.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living.

If you give your best and fail, you have no reason to be disappointed. If you don't give your best and fail, you have not right to be.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

I just want to keep exploring music and hopefully the orders will keep coming in and I'll be able to keep growing the interior and exterior sides of my life.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

Everyone has their own mantra.