If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold up America to Americans and present it to you in a new way. All I wanted to do is in a funny way say, "Look at your country. It's magnificent."

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.