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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
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"The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all."
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"If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill."
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"When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer."
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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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"He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed."
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"I'm pretty much an open book."
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"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."
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"If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market."
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"We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on."
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"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."
Work
"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."
Change
"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."
End
"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
Attitude
"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."
Music
"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."
Music
"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
Ideas
"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
Time
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
Theatre
"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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