“So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that doe...” — Danny Elfman Quote

“So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.”

“I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.”

“Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.”

“If my reel life character resembles me in real life, I can portray it comfortably. To me it's not acting, it's just about being you. That was the case with Khushi and Missamma. But to play a character that's unlike you is a different ball game.”

“I've been an underdog my whole life with the shape that I have and the way that I look. But once I get in the ring it's a whole different ball game.”

“It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!”