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'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 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.

One step at a time I know I will reach my destination of which I consider to be a happier, healthier way of living in mind body and soul.

Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.