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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me. ”
I have the time needed to support the album and tour. ”
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing. ”
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach. ”
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years. ”
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked. ”
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time. ”
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. ”
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries. ”
When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property. ”