"You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time."

“I was playing in a band and was approached to score an independent film. I had never done it, but had written instrumental music, so I figured I could do it. Turns out I loved scoring the film, and took on another couple films before realizing that if I was to be an effective narrative composer, I should study the craft of composition. I stopped taking projects and got a degree in orchestral music composition, and followed that with film scoring studies. Near the end of my degree studies, I started taking on student films as a way to get back into film scoring.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com

“I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.”

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

“Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.”

“In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian race. In six months nearly a million Armenians have been killed. The number of victims and the manner of their destruction are without parallel in Modern History.”

Source : Herbert Adams Gibbons (1916). “The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 : The Facts and the Responsibilities”

“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”

Source : Bob Newhart (2006). “I shouldn't even be doing this: and other things that strike me as funny”

“I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.”