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

The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.

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

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.