"So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow."

"So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses."

"I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound."

"I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often."

"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."

"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."

"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."

"One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice."