"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."

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"I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on."

Time, Thought, Film

"I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."

Cinema, Country, World

"The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that."

Music, Power, Harmony, Sound

"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."

Actor, Actors

"One of the things I love about cinema is the range."

Love, Cinema

"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."

Media, Tension

"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."

Life, Music, People, Hearing

"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."

Time, Theatre

"In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form."

History, Music, Development, End

"You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time."

Time, Film, Play

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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world."

Jim Walton, American Businessman

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"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."

Clifford Stoll, American Author

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"I am a citizen of the world."

Demosthenes, Greek Statesman

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"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."

Hosea Ballou, American Clergyman

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"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."

Maynard James Keenan, American Musician

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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'"

Rip Torn, American Actor

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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"

Will M. Cook, American Composer

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