In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

To learn etiquette, is actually learning how to see others, and respect them.

A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.

Almost everybody I know has died, ” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.