不過晚年，他卻也認為，「“This was a lesson for me. Although I was proud of the music, I had to be aware of what had happened, and why. The audience for movies does not usually have a high musical culture.”
A good film composer should be able to “write atonal music or a nice melody in C Major, compose in the style of any era or composer, but the most important thing is not to lose your own personality,” he said.」
