A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

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.

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.

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

My parents did not have any interest in music.

All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.

I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.