It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it never really got its just due. Now, hip-hop seems to be getting that recognition and is more widely accepted, which is great.

I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective.

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.