A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

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.

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

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.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

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.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

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.

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

A bird is three things Feathers flight and song And feathers are the least of these.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.

The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

Gold like the sun which melts wax but hardens clay expands great souls.

They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.

I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

Time spent getting a massage is never wasted.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.

Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time.

I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.

I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.

What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.