While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.
The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.
Composing demands a degree of isolation.
I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.
I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.
If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.
I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.