It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list.
Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
God is not a respecter of persons but a respecter of principles that are in his word.
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.
I don't think anyone can answer whether the Fed is going to have to tighten beyond neutral,. . . You have to be looking at the economy going forward and that changes as additional data comes in.