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In writing the score and with the psychological approach that he used, imagining and then expressing each emotion of the characters' interior lives as the story progressed, Benny [Herrmann] had fallen in love with the character Geneviève played in the film. When she "left," it was as if he had experienced a grievous personal loss.

— A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More by Paul Hirsch (Page 70 - 71)

Problems have solutions. If there's no solution, there's no problem.

— A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More by Paul Hirsch (Page 48)

From chapter 5: Dissolution "There was something about my mood and its dark glow that eclipsed sense, that made me see this creature, which had indeed been assigned a place in the taxonomy—catalogued, studied, and described—irreducible down to any of that. And if I kept looking, I knew that ultimately I would have to admit I knew less than nothing about myself as well, whether that was a lie or the truth."

— Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Page 175)