'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.

I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

I think the only thing that I really haven't done much in, and I haven't felt too attracted to, is romantic comedies.

Fish would probably be the last of all creatures to discover water.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good but that which is good is always beautiful.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.