It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if youve got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

Composers are always going back to the past.

I think that music has an endless life.