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!

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.

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.

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.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.