This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

The prospect of death is nature's way of encouraging us to strive for greatness.

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

If you can't do, you had best shut up.

Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a terrific match winner in any Condition