Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.