In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

Bullets do not discriminate. They are equal-opportunity projectiles.

I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other.

Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.