I really love writing themes and melody.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

I don't want to stay here overnight, ' said Harry angrily, sitting up and throwing back his covers. 'I want to find McLaggen and kill him.

That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.

Its important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

I'm down for you, so ride with me. My enemies your enemies, Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.