Film Composer Gifts

"I've figured out why my life is boring."

Randy Newman.

Diver encounters shark playing theme from Jaws on a cello

Shepherd and eurydice

"Bond James, Bond."

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

Benedict Cumberbatch

"I kid you not, blood was oozing from the walls! Unfortunately, it was fake: I had stumbled on the set of a horror movie..."

Mozart's First Movement - Baby Mozart is sitting on the potty.

Herman Mankiewicz

"I've seem an awful lot of movies ever since they cut them all down to two minutes."

Felix Mendelssohn

Ernie Studios. Hi, Ernie. What movies are you working on? We have a script about astronauts marooned on a planet filed with talking gorillas who are in hard economic times. I think I'll call it "The Apes of Wrath"! We're casting "Reignman." The central character is a savant monarch. And we're filming a movie about a suburban town populated by women with strange, long hair ... It's called "The Stepford Weaves."

Concert Pianist.

"Remind me: Is it the New York Critics Award or the Sundance Audience Prize that always lets us down?"

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

Anna Calvi

"Well, what did you expect? They were both missing vital organs."

No Elgar!

"Now Playing: One of those Jane Austen movies."

Trump! The Musical

Rejected Titles For The Canadian National Anthem.

"Let's talk film or let's not talk film - I'm easy."

'This should be perfect. The main characters fall in love during a series of explosions.'

Theorbo

'OK, everybody...'Louie, Louie' from the top!'

"I remember when the death of the hero meant the end of the sequels. Now it marks the beginning of the prequels."

Mozart on a computer,

"It turns out that if you give a hundred monkeys a hundred typewriters, eventually they'll turn out the work of Tarantino."

"Seth, here, is one of the best young creative compromisers in the business."

Schubert's Unfinished Basement

"Bravo!"

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

"This next one is my own quirky rendition of Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique,' Movement 5, 'Dream of a Witches' Sabbath.'"

Film Festival. Events. Screenings. Ernie attends these festivals in costume. He's gone over to the dork side!