To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

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'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

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.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

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

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.