top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."
Standard
Customized
More
"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Familiarity breeds contempt."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."
Familiarity
"I prefer to write music for family films. I like people."
Family
"Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt."
Music
"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."
Experience
"Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero."
Being
"The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s."
Society
"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years."
Music
"Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions."
Music
"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
Music
"Today it's not culture; it's box office."
Culture
bottom of page