When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

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.

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 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.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.

I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.

Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

What I do on stage, you won't catch me doing off stage. I mean, I think deep down I'm still kind of, like, timid and modest about a lot of things. But on stage, I release all that; I let it go.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder.