He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.
Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.
The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.
You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters.
On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.