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

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.

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.

It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.

I had absolutely no idea of how I was supposed to play. I never learned music! I was just thinking: "if anyone can do it, I can do it too."

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.