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.

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.

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

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going

When in doubt, ATTACK!

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

It takes 21 days to develop a habit.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.