All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Be happy, and the reason will appear.

Don't be discouraged. When one door closes, you can find alternative open door.

Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so.

Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

Revelation replaced investigation.

Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.