It's a happy relationship when it's easy and when there's that trust and love and no jealousy or games or anything.
I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.
I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.
There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.
We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.
It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.