How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It always seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) in "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) - that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you're always following behind.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.