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"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays."
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"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."
"If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently."
"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."
"Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you."
"I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on."
"I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess."
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"I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready."
"I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions."
"I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies."
"It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there."
"Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score."
"I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling."
"One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it."
"There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself."
"You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive."
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