"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."

"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy."

"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help."

"People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country."

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."

"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead."