Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

  • -- Brian Selznick 布赖恩·塞尔兹尼克

有时,我有自己感兴趣的主题,或者触及更大的问题,但实际上,我只是想弄清楚情节,或者人物是如何工作的。我在尽我所能写出最好的故事。

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Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.

通常在演播室里,关于这类事情……你只要出去玩一玩,看看会发生什么,通常——大多数情况下——第一次尝试是最好的一次,然后你发现自己在重复自己的想法。

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

为大乐队作曲的在世作曲家寥寥无几。他们并不多,而我有做这件事的天赋。我把注意力集中在我最擅长的事情上。

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own not with ink, but with our daily choices.

人生中最重要的故事不是用墨水写的,而是我们每天的选择。

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

讲述一个人们如何伤害彼此的故事,要比讲述是什么把他们绑在一起容易得多。