Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.