I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

When I turn back to Jase, he’s again beaming at me. “You’re nice.” He sounds pleased, as if he hadn’t expected this aspect of my personality.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

Off with their heads!

Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

You plus God equals enough.