John williams

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its...

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of...

There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston...

For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.

I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.