Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.

I like having deadlines... a film release date or a concert premiere date. It channels one's energy into doing often remarkable work that oceans of extra time would probably not improve upon.

You don't have to be a big name to do big things. Shine does not require recognition.

When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!

I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

Masturbation is always very safe. You not only control the person you're with, but you can leave when you want to.

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

What was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.