There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

Music is an experience, not a science.

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.

We don't have a rooting interest. We have an interest in watching people excel and then coming up with creative ways to describe it.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.