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"I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people."
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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."

"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."

"I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated."
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"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."

"I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark."

"I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities."

"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy."

"Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium."

"Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique."
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