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.

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.

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.

To be a rainbow in someone’s cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.

When you can, show them, when they can't teach them and when you do remember the only deed worth doing is the one that helps another up.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, you’re going to kill it.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.