It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

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 don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

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

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

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

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.

The environmental crisis is a global problem and only global action will resolve it.

The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'

I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.

Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.

We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.

When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

Lunch is a big huge salad with every color in it. From leafy greens to purple to herbs, fresh cut herbs mixed into it for flavors. I vary what I toss into it. Sometimes it might be lentils and chopped tomatoes, other days it could be garbanzo beans, some days I might have just a salad and have some lentil soup on the side.

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

Character is what you are in the dark.

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.

There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.

For my eyes, my day-to-day just involves curling my lashes to open up my eyes and applying our mascara, The Quickie. If I'm getting my makeup done, I like to get individual lash extensions or a strip of false lashes, depending on how glam I want to get.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

How many ways can you cut a steak? How many ways can a chord go? I've been in this business so long, I know how to cut it.

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'