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 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.

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.

One kiss changed my life. Dibs on the rest of yours. ~Daniel

It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.

America's going to come back, and for that to happen, we're going to have to have a president who can work across the aisle.

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.

A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

If there is no action, you haven't really decided.