If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what you're doing, don't ever become a film composer.

In the sometimes ridiculous action scenarios you're laughing out loud, and so the more committed and in fact the more highbrow the music is, the funnier it is.

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so much.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!

We are not the policy department, except for those of us who are, " Jackaby revised.

The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.

Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.

Anything that exists is possible.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.