Quotes

After all, you're supporting something. That's what I do. The main thing is that you have communication with the filmmaker. By the time you get it, they've been on it for years. In six weeks I'm expected to crystallize their ideas. Psychologically, it's very stressful for them because it's the only time they lose control of the film.

I try to enter directly into the movie's plot and tell the audience something about the story that they can't possibly perceive by just watching the film. For example, if I write for a scene of two people kissing and I write some horrendous music, you know more than just a kiss is happening. I'm always interested in participating that way. Just to write sad music for a sad scene, sure, I'll do it, but it doesn't offer me a great challenge.

[on Stanley Kubrick] He's one of the best friends I'll ever have, and we're both determined to preserve that friendship...which is why, following "Barry Lyndon", we've agreed never to work together on another movie for the rest of our lives.