It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. - Ralph Vaughan Williams

There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City – the intuition that I had been there already.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.