There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

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

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.