Composer

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established...

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me.