It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

If you didn’t fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up.

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always amusing.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.