There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

Truth is a Person

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.

You only have control over the storms you are able to have peace in.

Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea.

People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.