Alex North

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.