I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Thank you for giving me another chance.""Thank you for deserving one.

I know the resolution. I know the end of the story before it ever begins. I must choose love. And for this, I will surely die.

In my youth, I was always one for the dramatic entrance. Now, in keeping with my character, I gravitate more toward the subtle and refined. Okay, with the occasional feathered serpent thrown in.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

Look for a way to lift someone up. If that's all you do, it's enough.

I think that vampires are sexy. The idea of them being untouchable has been really exciting for people.

I like hanging out at non-showbizzy places.