When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.

I have to admit, a manicured look works for me.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.