I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.

I think the only thing that I really haven't done much in, and I haven't felt too attracted to, is romantic comedies.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

We Were young. He didn't love me. He just thought he did. Simple as that.- Blaire Lynn

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.

Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.