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"I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me."
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"I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before."

"I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me."

"The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want."

"Today, we are not just launching a project that will irrigate land and light up homes. We are reviving a region, restoring hope, renewing life and redefining Afghanistan's future. The dam is a generator not just of electricity but also of optimism and belief in the future of Afghanistan."

"I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned."

"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."

"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."

"As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else."

"These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next."
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"I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark."

"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."

"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."

"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then."

"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter."
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