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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

I'm changing and I'm terrified of how weak I feel, how vulnerable my flesh and soul has become because of this girl.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

We're renting the space that we call Earth, so we may as well just go for it.

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

All is as beautiful as we think it.

Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams