“The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; ...” — David Newman Quote

The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; he has no real relationship to anything.

I think John Williams, him and his team, have been incredible orchestrators. By that, I mean how he chooses which instrument plays which note.

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

People who go to concerts hear Beethoven's symphonies hundreds of times, but 'Star Trek' is recorded, so it's not played all the time.

The hero of 'Dark Powers' can touch murder victims and read their last memories.

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

My mother is my hero.

I only sign up to play the hero when I am that sure of the script, which, believe it or not, comes by rarely.

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.