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"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."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."
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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"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."
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"I prefer to write music for family films. I like people."
Family
"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years."
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"Today it's not culture; it's box office."
Culture
"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
"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
"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."
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"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."
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"Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero."
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