They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.
There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.
There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.
I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.'
I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.
Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
