Ennio Morricone

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.