Randy Newman

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.