The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .