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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."
"The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them."
"I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often."
"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."
"That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one."
"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."
"Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline."
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"A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it."
"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste."
"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."
"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."
"The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face."
"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."
"I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it."
"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy."
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