In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.

I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.

I think after everything in the whole process of filmmaking, temp scores are great if you use them for what they're good for, if you use them for that early stage of support for things.

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.

We stand at a crossroads. Do we choose 'the will to power' or 'the will to humanity, ' or perhaps a new configuration of both: the power of humanity?

Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!

Of course he despised the world as a whole

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.