[on being asked by Stanley Kubrick to arrange soundtrack music for
Barry Lyndon (1975)] I hadn't seen 'A Clockwork Orange' or any of his films, so I said, 'Well that sounds great, Mr. Kubrick. Is there any chance you could call me back on Monday? I'm a little busy at the moment.' And there was this fellow who was a journalist, standing there with his mouth open: "Don't you know who you were talking to?"