For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.