“'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence...” — Richard Corliss Quote

“'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.”

“How many mothers have emerged from a family trip to a Disney movie and been obliged to explain the facts of death to their sobbing young? A conservative estimate: the tens of millions, since the studio's first animated feature, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' premiered in 1937.”

“In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son of a colonel in the Army of the Confederacy.”

“I did psychology at university, but I wouldn't say that my music is too influenced by it. The way I make music is a little more to do with an emotional connection. When I compose the melodies for my tracks, it always comes from the heart.”

“When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.”

“I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.”