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.

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.

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.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

Whatever energy you put out there, that's the energy you're going to get back.

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

I want to score goals in every match, as many as possible.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are right now.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.